I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.
Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.
There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.
Life is not for the faint of heart.
It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
Remember when we didn't live in the future? When we were young, it was not the future yet.
There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're asking me something that I've never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, "Really? It's Natasha. Okay?" Like I've never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.
Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.
I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.
Let's face it. I'm an open book.
There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.
