Lyonne Actress Quotes

#1. I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

Ving Rhames

#2. When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Gerrit Smith

#4. There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

Natasha Lyonne

#5. Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Nicole Brossard

#6. I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Natasha Lyonne

#7. Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#8. I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But ... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

Carrie Underwood

#9. I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

Carey Mulligan

#10. Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.

George Gissing

#11. I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice.

Zorgie Adriana Sanchez

#12. You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

W. H. Auden