Juliette Lewis Quotes

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Juliette Lewis

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 21, 1973

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

Juliette Lewis

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

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

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I didn't like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school - less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time.

Juliette Lewis

My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.

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

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I love L.A. I fall more in love with it as I get older.

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

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

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

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Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.

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When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up.

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It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

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

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

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