I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.
JULIA STILESI 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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It was nice that there [ in the Bourne Ultimatum ] was a reference to the relationship . It’s very subtle – it’s actually without dialogue. I do think it’s powerful even without words.
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I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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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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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 pretty much grew up in public.
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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 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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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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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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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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In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
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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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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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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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