Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
JULIA STILESI 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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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 am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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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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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 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 wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
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The thing with the Bourne movies is that they’re so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization.
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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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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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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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.
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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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Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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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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