Look, I'm not thrilled that perfect strangers get to have an opinion about me or feel like they know me, but I have enough perspective to know they don't know me, and I do have a life and I don't live it for other people.… My reality is very different from what everyone read. The problem is because I did get myself in a lot of trouble, I didn't get to do the kind of work that maybe I should have been doing, so it became confusing who I really am and what I am really about … It's totally fucking strange to me that people took a lot of that fucking stuff seriously. … It's not their fault that they don't know me personally. Who's got the time?

As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne's Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)