Juliette Lewis Quotes

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Juliette Lewis

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 21, 1973

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When 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?

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I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

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Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

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It's only artists who can help artists.

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I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

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My parents are just the best.

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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.

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It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

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I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

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I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

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