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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

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 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 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 think it’s really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don’t think it’s annoying at all.
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People Thinking Years
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
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
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
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 think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
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Knows Outlandish Thinking
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.
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Nice Powerful Thinking
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 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.
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Directors Giving Scene
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
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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Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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Oscars Roles Winning
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.
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Easier Home Seriously Term
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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Knows Regular School
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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Cake Television Theater
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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Actors Home Thinking
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?
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Hate Moments Thinking Worst
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
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.
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Cutting Editing Hands
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
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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Joints Running Yoga
I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.
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Country People Running Summer

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