Natasha Lyonne Quotes

I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

When I am scared, I push myself and get the best out of myself.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.

I want to become better, I don't want to let my mistakes define me.