Top 116 Juliette Lewis Quotes December 9, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “I don’t want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.”― Juliette Lewis“Like everybody I have many different sides.”― Juliette Lewis“Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.”― Juliette Lewis“I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I’ve never had normal dating.”― Juliette Lewis“I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive’s ‘Taking Care Or Business’ – you’ll feel better.”― Juliette Lewis“In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don’t have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it’s almost a requirement.”― Juliette Lewis“Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely.”― Juliette Lewis“My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.”― Juliette Lewis“Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.”― Juliette Lewis“I’m really into coconut oil for everything. I cook it, eat it, put it in my hair, and use it as body lotion. I put it on my face, too – day cream, night cream, whatever. I love the smell. It reminds me of the beach. I’m not particular on what brand as long as it’s organic.”― Juliette Lewis“It always surprises me when people say, ‘I don’t regret one thing about my life. I wouldn’t change anything because it’s all led me to where I am today.’ I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.”― Juliette Lewis“I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me.”― Juliette Lewis“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?”― Juliette Lewis“My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don’t follow anything blindly. That’s religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.”― Juliette Lewis“I’ve always been an outsider. I’ve always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn’t come around very often.”― Juliette Lewis“I’ve always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It’s the only way I know.”― Juliette Lewis“I’ve never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I’ve never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to step inside them.”― Juliette Lewis“Over time, I’ve loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.”― Juliette Lewis“There’ s a duality in myself, and it’s also what I try and instill in my roles.”― Juliette Lewis“My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.”― Juliette Lewis“I was scared by social media – just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful.”― Juliette Lewis“I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I’ve just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it’s like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I’ve played in movies.”― Juliette Lewis“All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.”― Juliette Lewis“Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a performer – whether it was acting or singing or whatever.”― Juliette Lewis“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”― Juliette Lewis“I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.”― Juliette Lewis“As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.”― Juliette Lewis“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”― Juliette Lewis“Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.”― Juliette Lewis“Because I’m not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.”― Juliette Lewis“The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.”― Juliette Lewis“I collect clothes – they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say ‘I’m a character actor’ then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.”― Juliette Lewis“The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time – Tom Cruise – coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin… they still brutalize him.”― Juliette Lewis“I’ve been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.”― Juliette Lewis“Of course I grew up with the ‘Vacation’ movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.”― Juliette Lewis“I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.”― Juliette Lewis“I don’t care about labels or anything.”― Juliette Lewis“I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don’t want to ever play it safe.”― Juliette Lewis“I’m expressive and animated.”― Juliette Lewis“In movies like ‘Cape Fear,’ I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That’s what I enjoy about acting.”― Juliette Lewis“I have people come up to me who love ‘The Other Sister,’ or ‘Old School,’ or ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.’”― Juliette Lewis“If someone tells you over and over that everything’s great, you immediately think, ‘OK, what’s the rest of the story?’”― Juliette Lewis“Musically, I wear many hats. I’m the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I’m not a major label act.”― Juliette Lewis“I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take more of me than anything else. But I was all into facing my fears.”― Juliette Lewis“Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.”― Juliette Lewis“My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.”― Juliette Lewis“The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it’s too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.”― Juliette Lewis“I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don’t think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.”― Juliette Lewis“In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character – you’re working through being another person – and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.”― Juliette Lewis“It’s always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that’s just all groove and pocket.”― Juliette Lewis“For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.”― Juliette Lewis“I always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I’m an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll… I’m the oddity at the freak show, you know?”― Juliette Lewis“I get lonely – I’m not going to lie about that… I kind of signed up in my mind that I’m giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don’t want to be distracted.”― Juliette Lewis“I’m actually very moral and nurturing, but I’m also adventurous. I am challenging.”― Juliette Lewis“What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.”― Juliette Lewis“The praise for ‘Cape Fear’ will help me work more artfully – I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world.”― Juliette Lewis“Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can’t get rid of. They’ve tried, but ultimately they can’t stamp it out.”― Juliette Lewis“It’s only artists who can help artists.”― Juliette Lewis“I’ve never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.”― Juliette Lewis“My parents are just the best.”― Juliette Lewis“I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.”― Juliette Lewis“I haven’t made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I’ve moved people emotionally, the directors I’ve been able to work with, and the stories I’ve been a part of.”― Juliette Lewis“If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you’d be in court all the livelong day.”― Juliette Lewis“So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what’s expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don’t fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.”― Juliette Lewis“I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y’know, I got successful at that, which isn’t a bad thing.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn’t articulate myself.”― Juliette Lewis“There is growth. Get out of the past.”― Juliette Lewis“I actually would not want the pressure of a lead in a series.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“In my heart of hearts, I’m a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.”― Juliette Lewis“As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.”― Juliette Lewis“TV is wild. You just play the role you’re given, and you show up and do the best that you can.”― Juliette Lewis“I thrive on adversity.”― Juliette Lewis“I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It’s the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.”― Juliette Lewis“We’ve played everywhere since I started The Licks. We’ve played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn’t matter where the venue is; we’re gonna bring you the rock!”― Juliette Lewis“I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.”― Juliette Lewis“Acting is me, but music is even more me. It’s everything.”― Juliette Lewis“Sometimes I want to control things more than I’m able to.”― Juliette Lewis“I only wear SPF if I’m going to the beach.”― Juliette Lewis“My eyebrows are a mess. They’re skinny; they’re dodgy.”― Juliette Lewis“I don’t have an explosive temper. People seem to think that – maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I’m actually kind of goofy.”― Juliette Lewis“Not all detectives are the same – some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.”― Juliette Lewis“I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.”― Juliette Lewis“I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me.”― Juliette Lewis“I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.”― Juliette Lewis“I’m so used to naysayers.”― Juliette Lewis“My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n’ roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music.”― Juliette Lewis“When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.”― Juliette Lewis“Some people can’t connect with their own emotions.”― Juliette Lewis“As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.”― Juliette Lewis“I’m all for natural solutions. I’m for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.”― Juliette Lewis“In my work, I’m always striving to be as honest as possible.”― Juliette Lewis“Whatever I do, I’m always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I’m more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It’s where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.”― Juliette Lewis“For my rock band, I was influenced by things like ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ For me, it’s live rock n’ roll theater.”― Juliette Lewis“I didn’t think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me.”― Juliette Lewis“Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it’s complicated to find balance.”― Juliette Lewis“For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.”― Juliette Lewis“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.”― Juliette Lewis“I normally don’t concern myself with, ‘Will audiences like me or like my character?’”― Juliette Lewis“I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.”― Juliette Lewis“I didn’t like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school – less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time.”― Juliette Lewis“My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.”― Juliette Lewis“I love L.A. I fall more in love with it as I get older.”― Juliette Lewis“All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.”― Juliette Lewis“I don’t approach anything I do like an academic. I’m not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.”― Juliette Lewis“Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.”― Juliette Lewis“When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up.”― Juliette Lewis“It’s not my nature to dominate and bully.”― Juliette Lewis“I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.”― Juliette Lewis“I didn’t build a career off my looks, thank God.”― Juliette Lewis
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