Quotes from Juliette Lewis

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

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

I'm expressive and animated.

I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me.

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

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.

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

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

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

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.

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

What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.

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.

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

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

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 didn't build a career off my looks, thank God.

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.

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

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

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

Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.

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