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I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.

Julia Stiles

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 STILES

Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
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.
JULIA STILES

Bills Identity Saws
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.
JULIA STILES

Character Females Thinking Writing
With film, so much is in the director’s hands. Once something is cut together – unless you’re in the editing room – you don’t really remember what the alternatives are.
JULIA STILES

Cutting Editing Hands
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
JULIA STILES

Cake Television Theater
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.
JULIA STILES

College People Trying
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.
JULIA STILES

Creating Little Vision
In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
JULIA STILES

Hate Moments Thinking Worst
I pretty much grew up in public.
JULIA STILES

Grew Much Public
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
JULIA STILES

Ideas Sometimes Track
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
JULIA STILES

Beautiful Fashion Vintage
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
JULIA STILES

Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
JULIA STILES

Actors Home Thinking
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.
JULIA STILES

Dwelling Moving Struggle
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
JULIA STILES

Joints Running Yoga
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
JULIA STILES

Oscars Roles Winning

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