"All the musicians that I know want to act."
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Juliette Lewis quotes (page 3 of 3)
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"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."
"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."
"I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made."
"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."
"I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse."
"[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."
"I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well."
"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."