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Julia Stiles Quotes

We didn’t have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I’d be safe.

– Julia Stiles

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit – everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

– Julia Stiles

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people’s perspectives and think about where they’re coming from.

– Julia Stiles

We’re not doing brain surgery. We’re not saving lives… Even if you’re doing Shakespeare, it’s still entertainment. We’re just entertaining people. We’re just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.

– Julia Stiles

It would probably help my career if I lived in L.A., but I think it would be all-consuming. New York has its own little rat race going on, too. But it’s also really diverse and has a lot of people doing different kinds of jobs. In L.A., work would be the only thing I’d think about, and sometimes, I need a break from that.

– Julia Stiles

I went to a Chekhov play with my grandmother, and at the end, I was talking about how the first act was so boring. And my grandmother didn’t see that at all. I realized it was because I need, like, the constant images changing. I wrote a paper about this.

– Julia Stiles

I tend to shut myself off from people. It’s gotten harder and harder for me to meet new people. It takes a lot of effort to open up to them and spend time with them.

– Julia Stiles

I always thought it would be really fun to play a villain. I feel like I haven’t done that yet. Not an anti-hero, not someone who is flawed, but somebody who is just straight-up bad.

– Julia Stiles

One of the wonderful things about ‘Jason Bourne’ and that franchise is getting to work the same people sporadically and over the course of many years. I’m not so keen on having to get to know a whole group of people.

– Julia Stiles

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I’m doing and noticing what I’m doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don’t jump right in and give you a note before you’ve had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.

– Julia Stiles

I pretty much grew up in public.

– Julia Stiles

Sometimes I think it’s easier to play someone who’s very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn’t want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

– Julia Stiles

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.

– Julia Stiles

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

– Julia Stiles

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

– Julia Stiles

I think with ’10 Things I Hate About You,’ I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I responded to that character. That was one of my first big jobs, so I think maybe I lucked out, and casting thought that I was a good match for it. Since then, as I’ve gotten older, I’m a much more happy, joyful, almost carefree person.

– Julia Stiles

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

– Julia Stiles

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

– Julia Stiles

Some of the best projects I’ve worked on – ‘Dexter,’ the ‘Bourne’ series – were leaps of faith. I couldn’t read the scripts in advance.

– Julia Stiles

I was reluctant to join Twitter. My biggest concern was, I don’t want these thoughts that pop into my brain to be immediately broadcast. There’s a danger in that. And also – who cares?

– Julia Stiles

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

– Julia Stiles

I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching ‘Bridesmaids’ and start crying.

– Julia Stiles

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.

– Julia Stiles

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

– Julia Stiles

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

– Julia Stiles

I am not a fan of rats or pigeons. In New York City, they have become very confident. When I was a child, you went on the subways, and the rats would stay down on the tracks, but now they hang out on the platform.

– Julia Stiles

We don’t have cable, so I don’t watch a lot of traditional TV. I watch a lot of Netflix, and there’s this thing in Canada called Show Me, and then I also get things from iTunes.

– Julia Stiles

One minute, I really am in awe of filmmakers, and I want to be working in film, and then the next minute, I get the itch to get back on stage.

– Julia Stiles

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

– Julia Stiles

I’m terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he’s disgusting, he’s offensive. I think that it would be embarrassing for our country to have him sit down with world leaders and try and have a conference or even take a photo op. So we’ll see what happens, but it’s a very pivotal time in the U.S.

– Julia Stiles

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