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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.

Julia Stiles

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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Hate Moments Thinking Worst
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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Focus Running Yoga
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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Directors Giving Scene
I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
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Different Rooms Skills
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
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Knows Outlandish Thinking
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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Ideas Sometimes Track
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
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
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Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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Oscars Roles Winning
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Innocent Ophelia Roles
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
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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Careers Error Errors Trial
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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Emotional Pain Type
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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Grandmother House Performance Powerful
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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Nice Powerful Thinking

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 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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