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.
JULIA STILESEven after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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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 took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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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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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’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 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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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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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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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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 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 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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