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.
JULIA STILESI 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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With film, so much is in the director’s hands. Once something is cut together – unless you’re in the editing room – you don’t really remember what the alternatives are.
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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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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 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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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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I’m going to Columbia University but I’m trying to keep that low-profile because I don’t want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
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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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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 worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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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 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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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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