Natasha Lyonne Quotes

It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Nobody
  • Some
  • Manufacturing

• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Drama

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • High
  • Attention

• What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Book
  • Game
  • Balance

• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Future
  • Culture

• If you were blessed with a fortunate position... why wouldn't you want to impact the world around you as much as possible?

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Why
  • Blessed

• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hair

• I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

  

  Lex Luger
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Past

• It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Trying
  • Eye