Juliette Lewis Quotes

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

My films are as much for the people as they are for me. The reception affects me, but doesn't change me as a person. That's important.

It's even hard for me to even watch myself, but that's the case with most actors. It's weird if an actor is like, 'I love watching myself.'

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.