Juliette Lewis Quotes

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.