From Juliette:
"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die"
"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."
-Her thoughts on high school
"I loved the way it looked, I thought it looked really raw. My thing with beauty is I 'm not influenced by all the magazines and the new hairdos. I mean I can look like any normal pretty faced girl. But with my hair back, you see all the weirdness of my face. I think it hilarious that people criticized it. Like it was done out of naivete'. They don't know that I know what I am doing. A Girl who takes two hours blow drying her hair, puts on three inch heels and base-I think that's a little nutty.
-On the media's response to her cornrow braided hair at the Oscars.
"I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady."
"If you were to think about what your face is doing, you wouldn't be able to do this character."
-On her role in "The Other Sister"
"Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work."
"Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles."
"Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create."
"The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid."
"Like everybody I have many different sides."
"I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed"
"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 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."
"All I did in that movie was yell. I was watching it the other night and I'm like 'shut up, you idiot.' That movie doesn't make me feel good."
- Her feelings about her role in "Natural Born Killers"
Question: Is it central to your identity that you define yourself on your own terms?
Answer: Absolutely, because otherwise you'll become everything that's already been done before. We'd all look like carbon copies.
" 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."
"Gilbert is a guy who is walking around in his sleep through life. He needs his eyes to be opened, and there's a lot of people like that."
-Her view on the character of Gilbert Grape.
"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."
"its just pretending."
-On acting.
"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."
LINES FROM FILMS
"So you like Blond's? Oh yeah..Im a natural Blond. Cant you tell? "
-Juliette in the Guess? Jeans commercial wearing an obvious wig.
"My reminiscence, I always thought, that for such a lovely river the name was mystifying, Cape Fear, When the only thing to fear on those enchanted summer nights, was that the magic would end and real life would come crashing in."
-Juliette as Danielle Bowden, from "Cape Fear"
(To a cactus) "I cant call you Lucy, Lucy's gone I'll call you Shelly, hi Shelly I know your thirsty."
-Juliette as Adele Corners, from "Kalifornia"
"There were fourteen kids in our family, so for Christmas we each got one pair of socks"
-Juliette as Gracie Barzini, from "Mixed Nuts"
"You know what one of the ways that movies are still better than playback: The music comes up, there's credits, and you always know when its over…… …ITS OVER!
-Juliette as Faith Justin, from "Strange Days"
"Early doesn't think that women should smoke or drink or cuss. So do you know what I do? I spell all my cuss words."
-Juliette as Adele Corners, from "Kalifornia"
Audrey: would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?
Ellen: Audrey…
Audrey: Well can we at least forbid them to answer the phone? Alexander called this morning and grandpa Clark told him I couldn't come to the phone because I was going to the bathroom!
Ellen: We're all making sacrifices Audrey…
Audrey: Do you sleep with your brother? Do you know how sick and twisted that is mom?
Ellen: Well I'm sleeping with your father, don't be so dramatic.
Audrey: I have nightmares about what he does in his bed alone when I'm not lying right next to him.
-Juliette as Audrey griswold, from "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation"
"That's the worst fuckin head I ever got in my life! Next time don't be so fuckin eager.
-Juliette as Mallory Knox, from "Natural Born Killers"
(Meeting Glibert Grapes extremely overweight mother)
Bonnie: (gilberts mom) I haven't always been like this.
Becky: Well, I haven't always been like this.
-Juliette as Becky, from "What's eating Gilbert Grape"
Mrs. Munchnik: Young lady, when you come out, do not answer the phone under any circumstances.
Gracie: Do not answer the door under any circumstances, because, it could be the seaside strangler, and you know what he'll do, he'll wrap fishing twine around your neck, and your face will turn blue, and then your eyes will bulge out, and then he'll knock you down and hike up your skirt, and bang you! (she enters the bathroom)
Mrs. Munchnik: Very funny, very funny young lady. Nobody comes here, this is an unlisted address.
(Door buzzer rings)
Gracie: (sticks her head out the bathroom door) Huh! It's the seaside strangler.
-Juliette as Gracie Barzini, from "Mixed Nuts"
"This is stupid, I don't wanna do this."
-Juliette as Sheryl O'Conner, from "That Night"
(There's a bunch of men arguing about whether silver can kill vampires and not just werewolves)
Kate: Well does anybody have any silver?
Men: (They look around at each other) No.
Kate: Ok. Then who cares?
-Juliette as Kate Fuller, from "From Dusk till Dawn"
"I'll give you my phone number, if you promise me that you'll never ever use it"
-Juliette as Melanie Horton, from "The Evening Star"
"Ya hear that?! Ya hear that?!"
-Juliette as Jane Emelin stomping on the floor, from "The 4th Floor"
