Juliette Lewis

“I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.”

“I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.”

“I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.”

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

“I'm expressive and animated.”

“I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.”

“My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.”

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

“My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.”

“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.”

“In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.”

“I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.”

“There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.”

“I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach.”

“Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.”

“Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.”

“I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.”

“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.”

“Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.”

“Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.”