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" I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of. "

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" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Director

Social Media

Musically

" Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was. "

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

" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Religion

Cops

" 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 kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. "

" I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies. "

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

" It's only artists who can help artists. "

" 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. "

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

" I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life. "

" I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing. "

" There is growth. Get out of the past. "

" The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world. "

" 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. "

" If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day. "

" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Always

Outsider

" If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?' "

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

" 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'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 always call myself an emotionalist. I feel. "

" Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. "

" I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' "

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

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

" Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles. "

" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Uncomfortable

Play

" We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock! "