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I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.

Julia Stiles

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
JULIA STILES

Innocent Ophelia Roles
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

Bills Identity Saws
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.
JULIA STILES

Figure Jobs Way Writing
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.
JULIA STILES

Nice Powerful Thinking
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.
JULIA STILES

Character Females Thinking Writing
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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Country People Running Summer
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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Ideas People Sex
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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College People Trying
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
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.
JULIA STILES

Bigs Organization Scope
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 STILES

Grandmother House Performance Powerful
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
JULIA STILES

Cake Television Theater
In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
JULIA STILES

Hate Moments Thinking Worst
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime

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