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I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I’m like, “Well, that’s over and done with, and I can’t control the outcome, so move on.” I just remember that it’s entertainment I am making.

Julia Stiles

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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Focus Running Yoga
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
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 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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Acting Important People
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
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
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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Creating Little Vision
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 took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Innocent Ophelia Roles
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.
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Guy Kids Thinking
My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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Knows Regular School
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
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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Bills Identity Saws
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
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
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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Bigs Organization Scope

I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I’m like, “Well, that’s over and done with, and I can’t control the outcome, so move on.” I just remember that it’s entertainment I am making.

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I used to struggle a lot with dwelling on how the day at work was, and I would dwell on my performance. Now, I’m like, “Well, that’s over and done with, and I can’t control the outcome, so move on.” I just remember that it’s entertainment I am making.

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