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All Quotes by author - Juliette Lewis
" Acting is me, but music is even more me. It's everything. "
Music
More
Acting
" All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. "
Life
You
Schooling
" All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more. "
People
Me
Energy
" 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. "
Weather
City
Great
" Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance. "
You
Balance
Eye
" As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self. "
Search
Self
Dramatic
" As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform. "
Five
Perform
Six
" As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play. "
Always
Look
Play
" Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles. "
Looking
Not Perfect
Better
" Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. "
Collective
Hole
Like
" Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. "
Artist
Create
Beautiful
" Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. "
Acting
Singing
Remember
" 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. "
You
Attitude
Man
" For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. "
Foundation
Crisis
Spiritual
" 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. "
Leader
Band
Just
" For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater. "
Rock
Me
Band
" I actually would not want the pressure of a lead in a series. "
Want
Lead
Actually
" I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "
I Feel
Feel
Always
" 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? "
You
Know
Rock
" I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life. "
Whole
Dealt
I Can
" I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed. "
Buy
Having
Keep
" I didn't build a career off my looks, thank God. "
Build
Thank God
Looks
" 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. "
School
Science
Teachers
" I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me. "
Me
Success
Film
" I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal. "
Intuition
Anything
Great
" I don't care about labels or anything. "
Anything
Care
About
" I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy. "
Think
Kind
Lion
" 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. "
Myself
Effort
Dress
" I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing. "
Tan
Want
Give
" 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. "
Me
Love
World
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