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" When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well. "

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" It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain. "

Juliette Lewis

I Am

Today

Change

" For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater. "

Juliette Lewis

Rock

Band

" 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'm so used to naysayers. "

Juliette Lewis

Used

" Like everybody I have many different sides. "

Juliette Lewis

Sides

Different Sides

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

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

" As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self. "

Juliette Lewis

Self

Dramatic

" 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. "

" My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n' roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music. "

" I was scared by social media - just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful. "

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

Juliette Lewis

Myself

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

" 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. "

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

" I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" It's not my nature to dominate and bully. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength. "

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