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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.

Julia Stiles

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
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
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Guy Kids Thinking
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
JULIA STILES

Anxiety Forever Grateful
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
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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Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
JULIA STILES

Actors Home Thinking
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
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
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
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.
JULIA STILES

Focus Running Yoga
I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Analyzing Behavior Human
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.
JULIA STILES

Figure Jobs Way Writing
I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.
JULIA STILES

Country People Running Summer
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
JULIA STILES

Joints Running Yoga
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
JULIA STILES

Knows Outlandish Thinking
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.
JULIA STILES

Ideas People Sex

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 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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