Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
JULIA STILESIn my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
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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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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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 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 took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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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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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 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 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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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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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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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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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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