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Juliette Lewis
1973 • American • Actress
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesWhen 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
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
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
It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.— 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
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
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
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
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
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
If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'— 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 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
Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.— 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