Natasha Lyonne People Quotations

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.

I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

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.

There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.