Julia Stiles Quotes
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Theater is like going to the gym for actors.
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Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.
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I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
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I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I'm like, "Well, that's over and done with, and I can't control the outcome, so move on." I just remember that it's entertainment I am making.
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I think it's really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don't think it's annoying at all.
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I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.
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I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll's House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful - it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.
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I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.
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I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.
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So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.
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I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.
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Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
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I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.
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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.
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It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.
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I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.
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I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.
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I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
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I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're kind of creating your own.
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I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.
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In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
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Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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I always feel like a goofy little kid.
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The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
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It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.
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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.
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I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.
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