178 Quotes by Juliette Lewis

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. 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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was like twelve or something, when you first kiss a guy and you see the way the guy reacts, how they get really excited, or whatever. And I'm perceptive, so I think, "Ah, jeez, is that something that I'm able to do?"

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