Juliette Lewis Quotes

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

That's the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.