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

Julia Stiles

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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Ideas Sometimes Track
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Innocent Ophelia Roles
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
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
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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Actors Home 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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Analyzing Behavior Human
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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Dwelling Moving Struggle
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
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 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
My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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Knows Regular School
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
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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Lifetime
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
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Emotional Pain Type

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