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" So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer. "

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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. "

Juliette Lewis

California

Chickens

Hollywood

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

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

" I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself. "

" As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play. "

" I don't care about labels or anything. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one. "

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

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

" I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Juliette Lewis

Myself

" 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. "

" My parents are just the best. "

" 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. "

" Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny. "

" I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people. "

" Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall. "

Juliette Lewis

Vacation

Hall