Natasha Lyonne Quotes

You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own..

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder.

I don't think the world works on merit.

People don't rise from nothing.

Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.

Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.