Natasha Lyonne Quotes

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

Adults under threat feel like children.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

People's fear doth ofttimes degenerate into desperation

My life was ripped off!

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release - made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

Visaranai' isn't for those with weak hearts. It has a lot of graphic violence, and you need a strong stomach to watch the film.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.