Juliette Lewis Quotes

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

Music is kind of my everything.

Sometimes I can be on a cloud and then two hours later feel really small.

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz, ' 'Hair, ' 'Fame, ' 'Annie, ' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.