Latest Juliette Lewis Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Straight Up, Vocalist, Traditional

  "The Hard Lovin’ Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• [There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

  Juliette Lewis

  Ideas, Brave, Care

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• 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.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Dad, Silly

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Sometimes I can be on a cloud and then two hours later feel really small.

  Juliette Lewis

  Clouds, Two, Sometimes

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

  Juliette Lewis

  Thinking, Discipline, Focus

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• 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

  Teenager, Character, People

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.

  Juliette Lewis

  Thinking, Going Away, Lasts

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

  Juliette Lewis

  Rocks, Pedestal, Culture

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I can write a song in the back of the bus, where I am right now, or in my living room, and I can perform it that night and have an instant reciprocal exchange - an emotional, impactful exchange - and it's a less technical medium. It's a pure expression from my soul to other souls.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Writing, Emotional

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

  Juliette Lewis

  Different, Pieces, Tvs

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Music is kind of my everything.

  Juliette Lewis

  Kind, Music Is

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

  Juliette Lewis

  Voice, People, Sound

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

  Juliette Lewis

  Thinking

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Individuality, Vocalist, Findings

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

  Juliette Lewis

  Silly, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

  Juliette Lewis

  People, Want, Knows

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

  Juliette Lewis

  Communication, Understanding, Perception

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.

  Juliette Lewis

  Children, Dad, School

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

  Juliette Lewis

  Hurt, Children, Evil

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• All that evilness is always just from pain and fear, and that's what I've come to understand. I've come to understand people now. Before, I would blame them for treating me in such a naïve way. I don't hate evil, vicious people anymore.

  Juliette Lewis

  Pain, Hate, People

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• I had an upbringing in which I was allowed to be free and use my mind. My parents only helped me to be myself. It was only in my teenage years that I met people who made me start having doubts about who I was. They said you shouldn't be confident, you shouldn't be strong. It is only when you meet those other people that you lose confidence.

  Juliette Lewis

  Strong, Teenage, Years

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

• All the musicians that I know want to act.

  Juliette Lewis

  Musician, Want, Knows

  "Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis Interview SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 25, 2011.