Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
JULIA STILESI like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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The thing with the Bourne movies is that they’re so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.
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In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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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 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’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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I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.
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I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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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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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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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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I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
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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 think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
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