Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lewis
Juliette L. Lewis is an American actress and singer. She gained fame for her role in Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of the thriller Cape Fear for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. This followed with major roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, The Evening Star, Kalifornia, From Dusk till Dawn, and The Other Sister. Her work in television has resulted in two Emmy nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 June 1973
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
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.
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.
I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
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.
[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 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.
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.