Top 60 Juliette Lewis Quotes

My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.

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

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.

It’s only artists who can help artists.

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?

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.

I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.

I’ve been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I didn’t think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

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.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

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.

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.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

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.

Not all detectives are the same – some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.

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.

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.

My parents are just the best.

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.

If someone tells you over and over that everything’s great, you immediately think, ‘OK, what’s the rest of the story?’

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.

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.

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

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a performer – whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

Of course I grew up with the ‘Vacation’ movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you’d be in court all the livelong day.

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.

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.

Some people can’t connect with their own emotions.

There is growth. Get out of the past.

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.

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.

My eyebrows are a mess. They’re skinny; they’re dodgy.

I thrive on adversity.

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.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

In my work, I’m always striving to be as honest as possible.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

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.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.

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.

I don’t want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.

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.

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.

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

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

TV is wild. You just play the role you’re given, and you show up and do the best that you can.

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

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.

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’m actually very moral and nurturing, but I’m also adventurous. I am challenging.

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

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.

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