As you can see from 'Symptomatic of a relationship gone sour' I have definitely done my fair share of sinning, so I just want to recount my story and how I have come to terms with myself.
Julia Fox
Nightlife is, to me, a little synthetic, a little desperate?
Well, from a young age we amassed quite an international archive of vintage clothing. This gave us the platform to begin experimenting with silhouette and understanding the cut and fit of clothing from around the world.
I have rosacea, so my cheeks always look like I have blush on. So I kind of already look like I'm wearing makeup, which is why I don't wear a lot of makeup.
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the landmarks of my childhood are gone. I do kind of feel like a bitter old-timer, like, 'These kids don't know what it was like.'
I can't be a one-hit wonder - though, I don't think that is going to be the case.
I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and... he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop.
Fashion is just so intense. It really has to be your passion, and it wasn't my passion.
My mom told me that even as a toddler I wasn't afraid of anything. She thought something was wrong with me. I didn't know how to walk or swim, but that didn't stop me from crawling into the ocean and almost drowning over and over again.
I kind of have a strange addiction to hair dryers. Like on the TV show, where they eat toilet paper or eat the wall or something - I'm addicted to hair dryers. Since I was 8 years old, I've used them to fall asleep. I love the white noise. I love the heat. It just puts me right to sleep.
I'm used to things changing, I'm used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out.
Heartbreak is a luxury in my opinion. In a lot of places in the world there's no time for that. People are worried about how they're going to get their next meal. There's no time to cry over someone.
I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.
I want to use my platform to highlight and shed light on issues that are dear to me.
I could be baking a cake and I'll do it a certain way. If you're just a creative person, it'll come out no matter what.
I'm always a big-picture kind of gal. I always think in the long term, and I like to see things through from beginning to end in my head.
My hair is always the same. It's wavy, so I brush it with a round brush. I'm a brush fanatic. I hoard brushes. I love getting my hair brushed. I will ask my friends to brush my hair for me.
I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You're the casting director of your own life.
There are times when I feel I've exposed too much but I also know what I do has touched people and I get so many young girls that tell me how it has helped them navigate through their own personal struggle and that makes it all worth it.
I just never thought in a million years that I would be, like, sharing a kiss on-screen with Adam Sandler.
I would just go wherever the wind blew, and I would always get myself into crazy situations. By some miracle, I'm still alive.
I get my eyelashes done. I get my top lashes done, and then I use waterproof mascara for my bottom lashes. It's an easy regimen.
Fashion and nightlife, the catwalk and the club, are notorious for going hand-in-hand.
When I saw 'Bully' and I was 11 or 12 years old I thought I could do this; I could make movies. Larry Clark's cinematography is very raw. It's also based on a true story. I think a lot of the movies I like are based on true stories.
Usually, on sets, they'll have multiples of the same outfit, in case it gets damaged or in case it gets dirty and starts to smell weird.
I think of myself as a creator, and I think that will always shine through in any medium that I decide to pick up. If you're creative and you're an artist, you could be doing anything and that creativity will shine.
You have to use your pain as your gift. If you're able to take something really negative and repackage it as something positive, you've nailed it.
I love Nic Cage and Meryl Streep.
I'm so many different things in one. I'm like, really, truly a New Yorker.
If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
I've crossed paths with so many different people from all walks of life. Any situation you put me in, I can manage.
I'm a collector of experiences and also very impulsive; I get an impulse to do something and my intuition of telling me to do something or if I get this idea and I think it's brilliant, I just have to do it.
I think fashion is a beautiful art.
The '90s were just such an amazing time for movies. There was more money in movies and you could get away with things.
I'm really open to everything. Maybe I'm really good in rom-coms, you know?
Maybe the mainstream needs someone like me.
Looking at myself retrospectively, how I survived, how I was reactionary as my surroundings were ever changing and I didn't have time to make thought out choices. My growth was quick, forced and dynamic.
I've always said that I've been acting my whole life, and everyone always told me, 'you should be an actress professionally.' I've heard that my whole life, so it's kind of cool to think, 'yeah, they were right.' I can do this and I'm good at it, and that feels really good.
I love Penelope Cruz and Tilda Swinton, and I love Marisa Tomei. I feel like I get compared to her a lot, which I think is the biggest compliment, because she's incredible. Debi Mazar I get a lot, and I love her, because I feel like we have similar stories. New York, club kid, just a complete train wreck, very independent.
I'm just not the best employee, and I came to terms with that very young, and I realized that if I was going to be successful then I'd have to be my own boss and take control of my life.
I think the things that excite other people don't even scratch the surface for me. I need much more to feel the adrenaline and the thrill.
I want the things that I create to outshine the person that I am perceived to be, which I think is often not accurate and not really representative of who I am.
I kind of consider myself as an anti-It Girl. I don't really care about being seen.
If I'm not able to share my experiences with everyone or else, they mean nothing at all.
I think a lot of what I do is for my own personal healing.
As New York City kids, you lived fast and partied hard as teenagers - experiences that informed your design aesthetic.
I remember thinking, if someone else can play me better than me, then what am I even here on this earth for?
If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.
I didn't want to act but just as a person I love to try new things and I never want to limit myself.
I want to conquer everything that I do.
