Juliette Lewis Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

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

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

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.

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.

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

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

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.

Like everybody I have many different sides.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper 'Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude.'

Just 'cause I'm in the same age bracket as Johnny Depp and Leo Dicaprio doesn't mean we all screw together.

Just to buck the system in California, I bought a Mazda for $6,000 when I was 15 without even bothering to get a license.

Trivia

Sister of actors Lightfield Lewis and Dierdre Lewis

Legally emancipated from her parents at age 14.

Dropped out of high school just three weeks after starting.

Arrested for being underage in an underground dance club at age 16. The arresting officer, who recognized her dad when he picked her up at the station, gave Juliette her mug shot (the charges were dropped), which now hangs, poster-size, in her home (this picture can be seen at Fan Page)

Drove without driver's license until she was 21. She owned a car bought under a friend's name and had been driving illegally since age 15. Eventually got a license after she got caught not stopping at a stop sign.

Father almost named her Snow Lake.

Daughter of Geoffrey Lewis.

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#75). [1995]

Played a suicidal mental patient in the music video for the Melissa Etheridge song "Come to my Window." Lewis' erratic behavior frightened the director to the point where he yelled "Cut!" several unnecessary times for fear that Lewis had truly suffered a mental/emotional breakdown.

Her song from Natural Born Killers (1994) was used in another song, "Bad Brother" by The Infidels.

Auditioned for the role played by Winona Ryder in Beetle Juice (1988).

Fronts a rock band called "Juliette and the Licks" which is touring on Van's Warped Tour in 2004.

Wears a size 7 1/2 shoe.

Posed for a portrait in US Magazine, by Peggy Sirota, which featured nothing but an extreme close-up of the soles of her bare feet.

Although she is now divorced, she remains good friends with her ex-husband, Stephen Berra.

She was introduced to her future husband Stephen Berra by her younger sister Brandy.

Ranked #7 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]

Sister-in-law of Ethan Suplee.