Top 50 Natasha Lyonne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is not for the faint of heart.”

— Natasha Lyonne

2. “Let’s face it. I’m an open book.”

— Natasha Lyonne

3. “There’s that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It’s the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.”

— Natasha Lyonne

4. “I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.”

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5. “The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.”

— Natasha Lyonne

6. “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.”

— Natasha Lyonne

7. “Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.”

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8. “Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.”

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9. “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?’”

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10. “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.”

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11. “I am a hooker with a heart of gold.”

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12. “There’s something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There’s a tremendous liberation on some level.”

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13. “My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “I just never get into trouble. It’s not my thing.”

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16. “Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.”

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17. “The thing about curly hair is that it’s a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it’s better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I’m really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I’ll submit, begrudgingly.”

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18. “There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands – I’ll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I’m probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?”

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19. “The world at large doesn’t always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in ‘Out of the Blue’ is one of them.”

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20. “I have a deep compassion for the idea that it’s okay to be myself. The idea that anything ‘other’ is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.”

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21. “I’m really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don’t feel as bogged down by that anymore.”

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22. “I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.”

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23. “As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.”

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24. “It’s a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.”

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25. “My hair is such a statement that it’s like a neon sign asking for trouble.”

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26. “Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.”

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27. “As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you’re being handcuffed, it’s so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.”

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28. “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.’”

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29. “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.”

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30. “When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I’d see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it’s kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.”

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31. “Remember when we didn’t live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.”

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32. “My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don’t want to attract too much cop attention.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.”

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35. “I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don’t feel entitled to success.”

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36. “I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it’s a good thing to have a serious facialist.”

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37. “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. Im in the exact same outfit every day.”

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38. “In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.”

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39. “I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing ‘American Reunion’ and told me, ‘You need to do this.’”

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40. “I have a television, but it’s not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “Rather than spend so much time wondering if I’m going to get hired, or is it a problem that I’ve got this black-tar history, I’ve just got to keep doing what I’m doing and try to be decent.”

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43. “Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.”

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44. “I don’t really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.”

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45. “There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there’s nothing to hide. It’s a relief in a way. There’s nothing about me that can’t be said.”

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46. “I’d love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That’s actually how I get work: I enroll. That’s like my good luck charm.”

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47. “It’s not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.”

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48. “No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You’ve got to do something with all the books you’ve read, so you might as well imagine you’ve optioned them.”

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49. “If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.”

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50. “I’m a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?”

— Natasha Lyonne