Juliette Lewis
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.Collection: Pet
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Famous
I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Attitude
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.
I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.
There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.
Like everybody I have many different sides.
I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.
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.
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.
I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.
My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy.
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.
For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.
I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.
As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
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.
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.
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.
Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.
I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.
I don't care about labels or anything.
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.
I'm expressive and animated.
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.
I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'
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.
If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'
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.
Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.
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.
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 always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I'm an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll... I'm the oddity at the freak show, you know?
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.
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?
I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.
What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.