I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
JULIA STILESI 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
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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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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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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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I pretty much grew up in public.
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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.
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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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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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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
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