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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Juliette Lewis

Jazz

Imagination

Hair

" I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself. "

" I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed. "

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

" My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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? "

" Like everybody I have many different sides. "

Juliette Lewis

Sides

Different Sides

" TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. "

" 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. "

" 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

" It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket. "

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

Juliette Lewis

Myself

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

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

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

" 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. "

" In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement. "

" 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