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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

Julia Stiles

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’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
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 feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
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Different Rooms Skills
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
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
I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Analyzing Behavior Human
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
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
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
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 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
I pretty much grew up in public.
JULIA STILES

Grew Much Public
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
JULIA STILES

Knows Outlandish Thinking
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 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.
JULIA STILES

Guy Kids Thinking

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

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