A biography for Natasha Lyonnehasn’t been written yet.
“As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.”
“I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.”
“I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'”
“I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.”
“You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.”
“Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.”
“I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.”
“Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.”
“I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.”
“It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.”
“It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.”
“That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.”
“Let's face it. I'm an open book.”
“I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'”
“I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.”
“I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.”
“I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.”
“I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.”
“From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.”
“I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.”