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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. "

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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. "

Juliette Lewis

Irony

People

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me. "

" I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better. "

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

" Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever. "

" I thrive on adversity. "

Juliette Lewis

Adversity

Thrive

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

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

" I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know. "

" I actually would not want the pressure of a lead in a series. "

" For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked. "

" 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. "

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

" I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well. "

" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Love

World

" 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. "

" Some people can't connect with their own emotions. "

" As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles. "

" I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me. "

Juliette Lewis

Success

Film

" I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach. "

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

Juliette Lewis

People

Energy