black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Julia Stiles

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
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
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
JULIA STILES

Lifetime
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 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
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
JULIA STILES

Ideas Sometimes Track
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

Creating Little Vision
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
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.
JULIA STILES

College People Trying
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
JULIA STILES

Actors Home Thinking
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.
JULIA STILES

Focus Running Yoga
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
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 am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
JULIA STILES

Anxiety Forever Grateful
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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES

Analyzing Behavior Human

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Julia Stiles Quotes