Julia Stiles Quotes

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

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.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

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

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

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.

If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

It's fun to stay at the Y! M! C! A!

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I pretty much grew up in public.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down.

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

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

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

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.

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.

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.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

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.

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.

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

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.

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.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

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.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

I 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.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.