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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

I pretty much grew up in public.
JULIA STILES

Grew Much Public
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 took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
JULIA STILES

Innocent Ophelia Roles
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
JULIA STILES

Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
JULIA STILES

Ideas Sometimes Track
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’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
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 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 never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
JULIA STILES

Actors Home Thinking
I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there’s always room for improvement.
JULIA STILES

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

Lifetime

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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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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