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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.

Julia Stiles

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
JULIA STILES

Anxiety Forever Grateful
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.
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Dwelling Moving Struggle
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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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.
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Creating Little Vision
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
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
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
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’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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Ideas People Sex
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.
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Bills Identity Saws
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
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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Ideas Sometimes Track
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
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
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

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