Natasha Lyonne Quotes

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

My life is an open pamphlet.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.