American - Actress | June 21, 1973 -
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
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It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.
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When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?
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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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Why I talk so seriously about art is that 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.
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It's only artists who can help artists.
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I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.
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My parents are just the best.
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