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 STILESI am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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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 feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
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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’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 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 pretty much grew up in public.
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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 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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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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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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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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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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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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