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 STILESI 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.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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I pretty much grew up in public.
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I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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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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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.
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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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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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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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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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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.
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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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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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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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Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
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I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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