Juliette Lewis Quotes

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.

I was always performing as a child, and then I was determined to act and sing and dance, so I travelled for miles every day to go from home in Kent into London.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I really love music but I've always wanted to act.

I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand in hand. I'm going to be an actor first because it's my career, but music will always be a part of me.

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!

I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.

I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.