I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
JULIA STILESThe 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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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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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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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 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’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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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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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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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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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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I pretty much grew up in public.
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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 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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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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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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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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