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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.

Julia Stiles

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
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.
JULIA STILES

Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.
JULIA STILES

Ideas People Sex
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.
JULIA STILES

Emotional Pain Type
I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I’m doing and noticing what I’m doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don’t jump right in and give you a note before you’ve had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.
JULIA STILES

Directors Giving Scene
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
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
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
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.
JULIA STILES

Acting Important People
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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Actors Home Thinking
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 STILES

Easier Home Seriously Term
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 wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
JULIA STILES

Beautiful Fashion Vintage
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
JULIA STILES

Careers Error Errors Trial
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.
JULIA STILES

Cutting Editing Hands

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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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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