The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Juliette Lewis
My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy.
I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement.
I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.
When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.
I love L.A. I fall more in love with it as I get older.
I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.
I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.
My parents are just the best.
Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.
I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.
Like everybody I have many different sides.
There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.
I thrive on adversity.
If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.
I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.
When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up.
My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.
I didn't like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school - less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time.
I've never been like Angelina Jolie, who at one time was spewing out this prototype Bad Girl stuff for people to consume. I've never boxed myself in that way. People can create boxes for me by all means, but it doesn't mean I'm going to step inside them.
The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time - Tom Cruise - coming out against anti-depressants and Ritalin... they still brutalize him.
For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.
If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
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 wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.
It's not my nature to dominate and bully.
It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.
I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.
The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world.
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.
I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take more of me than anything else. But I was all into facing my fears.
As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.
I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me.
My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n' roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music.
Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.
As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.
I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.
