T. J. Stiles Quotes

Quiet! I'm expressing myself!

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

I look like Walt Disney just threw up.

I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

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.

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

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward.

Each inhale creates more space in our bodies.

Each exhale allows us to let go of the moment that has just passed.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.

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

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I pretty much grew up in public.

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.