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.
Natasha LyonneLife is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha LyonneWhat I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're asking me something that I've never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, "Really? It's Natasha. Okay?" Like I've never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.
Natasha LyonneIn my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
Natasha LyonneWhen 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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