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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.

Julia Stiles

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 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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People Thinking Years
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
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

Directors Giving Scene
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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Character Females Thinking Writing
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
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
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’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
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
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’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
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Easier Home Seriously Term
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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Bigs Organization Scope
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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Beautiful Fashion Vintage
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
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
JULIA STILES

Lifetime

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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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.