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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!

Julia Stiles

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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Grandmother House Performance Powerful
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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People Thinking Years
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
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Beautiful Fashion Vintage
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
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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Character Females Thinking Writing
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
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Knows Regular School
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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Careers Error Errors Trial
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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Figure Jobs Way Writing
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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Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
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
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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Cutting Editing Hands
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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Oscars Roles Winning
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
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Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
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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Hate Moments Thinking Worst

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