Juliette Lewis Quotes

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Juliette Lewis

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 21, 1973

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

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Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

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

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

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

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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.

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I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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I don't care about labels or anything.

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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.

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I'm expressive and animated.

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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.

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I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

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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.

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

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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.

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