Juliette Lewis Quotes

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.

- Juliette Lewis

Think, Terrifying, Which, Creeping

My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.

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Part, Endless, Had, Video Camera

I walk into a restaurant, and people stare as though I've just landed from another planet. Every time I walk out in public, it's like the alien freak show has arrived. It does have its advantages. I hardly ever get bothered by the paparazzi, probably because of some of the more edgy characters I've played in movies.

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Some, Show, Another, Paparazzi

So many actors and musicians seem to be only interested in what's expected of them, and they join the dots accordingly. I don't fit into any narrow categories as an actor or a singer.

- Juliette Lewis

Singer, Dots, Accordingly, Narrow

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

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Love, Other, Gilbert, Old School

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

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Think, Critical, Rather, Overly

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

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Work, Success, Success Is, By-Product

I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.

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Business, Feel, Everyone, Turner

I'm expressive and animated.

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Expressive, Animated

Over time, I've loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

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Jazz, Over, Baker, Classic Rock

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

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Bring, Venue, Gonna, Arenas

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

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Think, Knew, Wrote, Journal

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.

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Bad, Been, Consume, Bad Girl

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

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Imagination, Kid, Jazz, Annie

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.

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Mind, Kind, Going, Wholeheartedly

I have a huge fear of crowds. The irony is that my band is a therapeutic exercise. I hurl myself into thousands of people.

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Thousands Of People, Therapeutic

Although I missed home, North Carolina is a spectacular place to spend four months. Wilmington has a great downtown area. It is not too small town or too big city. The people were really welcoming and nice. The weather was lovely.

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City, Small, Big, Big City

My eyebrows are a mess. They're skinny; they're dodgy.

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Mess, Skinny, Eyebrows

My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.

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Loving, Over, Mode, Depeche

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?

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Doing, Always, Actress, Oddity

Of course I grew up with the 'Vacation' movie with the legendary Anthony Michael Hall.

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Movie, Michael, Legendary, Vacation

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.

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Regret, My Life, About, Surprises

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

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Myself, Introverted, Insular, Articulate

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.

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Play, Role, Real Characters, Changed

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

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Work, Boss, Interpreting, Interpret

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

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Reality, Never, Schooling, Prepares

I'm really into coconut oil for everything. I cook it, eat it, put it in my hair, and use it as body lotion. I put it on my face, too - day cream, night cream, whatever. I love the smell. It reminds me of the beach. I'm not particular on what brand as long as it's organic.

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Love, Lotion, Use, Reminds

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

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Character, Will, Like, Normally

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

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Play, Other, Actress, Whereas

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.

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Some, Like, Summers, Camp

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

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Babysitting, Younger, Before, After-School

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

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Myself, Grown-Up, Like, Relish

When I feel something, I feel it to the ninth power.

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Power, Feel, I Feel, Ninth

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'

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Rest, Think, Over, OK

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.

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Makeup, Dress, Sloppy, Shoots

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

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Director, Through, Always, Teenager

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

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Self, Search, Dramatic, Teenager

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

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Famous, Had, Really, Just Something

I was scared by social media - just scared of what I might attract. Once I broke onto that thing, because I needed it for my band to tell people about shows, I realized, 99 percent of the time, people are funny, clever, inventive, beautiful.

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Tell, Attract, Needed, Social Media

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.

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Social, Wear, Major Label, Social Media

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

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Question, Cops, Dad, Instilled

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have no poker face.

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Face, Poker, Wear, Sleeve

I thrive on adversity.

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Adversity, Thrive

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

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Always, Being, Pessimistic, Versus

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.

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Soul, Facing, Anything Else, Scared

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

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Actor, Hole, Bass, Bass Player

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

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Emotions, Most Amazing, Also, Feelings

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

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Keep, Washed, Having, Collect

Like everybody I have many different sides.

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Sides, Like, Everybody, Different Sides

I've always been an outsider. I've always been attracted to roles that would challenge me and that wouldn't come around very often.

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Always, Been, Very, Outsider

I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.

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Deal, Like, Trained, Great Deal

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

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My Life, Die, Ever, Continuing

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.

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Say, Critical, Hi, Annoying

For me, the most challenging thing was developing myself as a songwriter and as a performer and as the leader of a band. And I just did it.

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Myself, Leader, Performer, Songwriter

I was singing before I acted, but I was also attracted to drama, and, y'know, I got successful at that, which isn't a bad thing.

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Singing, Bad, Which, Acted

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.

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Love, Famous, Actress, Movie Star

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.

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Media, Pharmaceutical, Movie, Movie Star

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

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Alive, About, Allowed, Helps

I have such a beautiful, strong family and friends, and they are like everything to me.

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Beautiful, Strong, Like, Family And Friends

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.

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Best, Directors, De Niro, Cape

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

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Love, Process, I Love, Filmmaker

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.

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Think, Side, Angeles, Los Angeles

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

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School, Dad, Dropped, Front

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.

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Doing, Muscular, Bearded, Front

I hate dates. It becomes a weird auditioning process. And I've never had normal dating.

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Weird, Never, Normal, Dates

I haven't made a career off my looks, thank God, but hopefully how I've moved people emotionally, the directors I've been able to work with, and the stories I've been a part of.

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Career, Been, Stories, Hopefully

All this primal energy people respond to in me and my characters is in my music, 10 times more.

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People, More, Primal, Respond

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

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I Am, Very, Actually, Nurturing

There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.

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Myself, Roles, Also, Instill

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.

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Deal, Mostly, Almost, Detective

It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

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Nature, Dominate, Bully

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

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Groove, Always, Been, Pocket

For my rock band, I was influenced by things like 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' For me, it's live rock n' roll theater.

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Influenced, Horror, Like, Rock Band

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

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Always, My Own, Been, Mainstream

I don't have an explosive temper. People seem to think that - maybe somewhere lives the lion in my cage. But I'm actually kind of goofy.

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Think, Explosive, Lives, Lion

Whatever I do, I'm always struggling to create a visceral experience. With my music, I'm more of a live performer these days. And film is such a different thing. It's where people sit in a dark theater. I want them to feel me as viscerally as if they were at a live show.

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Feel, Show, Visceral, Struggling

I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.

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Solutions, Natural, Eastern, Philosophies

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.

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Seven, Classes, Liked, Elementary School

I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me.

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Think, Fact, Going, Translate

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

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Play, Evolve, Always, Interests

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

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Emotions, Own, Some, Some People

Leaving your home can be a fear at times. You gotta make yourself get out.

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Get, Gotta, Times, Leaving

I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.

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Hollywood, Mini, Then, Apartment

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

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Crisis, Same, Same Thing, Existential

What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.

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Think, I Think, Actually, Wild

TV is wild. You just play the role you're given, and you show up and do the best that you can.

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Play, TV, Given, Wild

I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.

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Love, Tan, Give, Blush

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

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Beautiful, Artist, Want, Being Beautiful

I don't care about labels or anything.

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Care, Anything, About, Labels

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

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Entertainment, Could, Crimes, Court

Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.

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Play, Some, Same, Awkward

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

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Restaurant, Famous, Romance, Mundane

I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.

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Play, Grow, Want, Uncomfortable

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

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Lucky, Able, Carve, Niche

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

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You, Tell, Whole, Dealt

There is growth. Get out of the past.

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Past, Out, Get, Growth

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

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Start, Been, About, Legends

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

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Pet, Kind, Imagine, Eighty

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

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Kid, Tell, Worst Thing, Invalid

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.

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Dancing, Cut, Dad, Beat

I didn't build a career off my looks, thank God.

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Career, Looks, Build, Thank God

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

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Play, Better, Perfect, Looking

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.

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Think, Attractive, I Think, Ugly

I only wear SPF if I'm going to the beach.

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Only, Going, Wear, Beach

In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible.

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Work, Striving, Always, Honest

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

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Whatever, Always, Performer, Singing

I actually would not want the pressure of a lead in a series.

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Actually, Would, Series, Pressure

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

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Six, Five, Wanted, Perform

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

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Other, Could, One Thing, Knew

It's only artists who can help artists.

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Help, Only, Who, Artists

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