Quotes from Juliette Lewis

I thrive on adversity.

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.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

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.

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.

There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.

I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.

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

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

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

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

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

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

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.

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 used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.