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.
JULIA STILESTheater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
More Julia Stiles Quotes
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I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!
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Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
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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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Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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I pretty much grew up in public.
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I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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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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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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I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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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 like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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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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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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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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