Juliette Lewis Quotes

I always liken myself to the bearded lady. Because I'm an actress turned musician, a woman doing male-dominated rock & roll... I'm the oddity at the freak show, you know?

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable - whether it was being the only girl in the county who could hit a jump shot in basketball or playing first base in the baseball with the boys. I was always encouraged to do whatever I wanted to do.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy away from that, if that... is what you want to do.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.

Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.

I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.