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I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.

Julia Stiles

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.
JULIA STILES

College People Trying
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
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
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 worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
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Bits Premature Probably
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn’t have actresses then.
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Character Females Thinking Writing
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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Bills Identity Saws
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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Grandmother House Performance Powerful
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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Figure Jobs Way Writing
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 think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
JULIA STILES

Knows Outlandish Thinking
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
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’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
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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Bigs Organization Scope

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.

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