Natasha Lyonne

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

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.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

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.

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.

Let's face it. I'm an open book.

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.

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 was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.

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.

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.

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.

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?'

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

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

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.'

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

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