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.
JULIA STILESI like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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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 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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
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I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna – the one you saw – we were doing right after Bourne Identity or right after it came out.
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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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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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It was nice that there [ in the Bourne Ultimatum ] was a reference to the relationship . It’s very subtle – it’s actually without dialogue. I do think it’s powerful even without words.
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I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.
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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 never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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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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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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