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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.

Natasha Lyonne

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Natasha Lyonne
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 4
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Presenter
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein
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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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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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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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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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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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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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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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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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I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.
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Let's face it. I'm an open book.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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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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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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