Lyonne: "I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works."

Lyonne: "Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships."

Lyonne: "I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'"

Lyonne: "I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old."

Lyonne: "Let's face it. I'm an open book."

Lyonne: "That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy."

Lyonne: "In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells."

Lyonne: "I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'"

Lyonne: "As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom."

Lyonne: "I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it."

Lyonne: "I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away."

Lyonne: "It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye."

Lyonne: "If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much."

Lyonne: "You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them."

Lyonne: "Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth."

Lyonne: "It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another."

Lyonne: "It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw."

Lyonne: "The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them."

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

Lyonne: "I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight."

Lyonne: "I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it."

Lyonne: "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."