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?
Natasha LyonneI 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.
Natasha LyonneOver time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
Natasha LyonneI'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
Natasha LyonneI have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so Iโm 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 theyโre like when you take their preferred substance away.
Natasha LyonneI would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
Natasha Lyonne