Julia Stiles Quotes

1. I just love James McAvoy. He is such a talented actor; his performances are so raw and powerful. It would be wonderful to work with him.  




2. I remember when I had to go to the MTV Video Music Awards and they sent this huge white stretch limo outside my dorm. I'm like: "Oh my God," and these sorority girls came home and made fun of me. It was totally embarrassing.


3. It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.





4. (on going to college) It makes me really happy; I enjoy it a lot. I also think it makes me a better actress. It just teaches you to think differently. It teaches you to analyze, and especially being an English major, it teaches you to interpret characters and story telling. It also forces you to learn how to express your ideas in class, and in the papers that you write.


5. I would never want to commit suicide, but I have thought about it. I find it a very comforting feeling, when you're stressed out, to be able to say: "I could walk in front of that bus right now." "Why did I say that? I love my life". When you feel you're in a rut or something's not going right, it reminds you of the power you have, and why it's very precious to be alive.

6. I don't think it's easy, but if we keep on demanding that we need to have it all, then we'll get there, I'm sure.



7. I got to be an only child until I needed a decoy!

8. (on the pressure to "fill out" her movie roles) I've walked into my dressing room and had a desk full of fake boobs that the producers have put there. That's pretty blatant.


9. Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

10. I pretty much grew up in public.

11. 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.


12. (on family) It was tough, but the key is that she had my dad helping her. They were liberal, progressive types, and they completely split both roles - running their pottery business from our apartment and taking care of the kids and my dad never took it as, like, an affront to his manhood.


13. 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.


14. (on her good girl image) It depends on what you want, if you want people to see you falling out of nightclubs or not. The actors I respect are the ones you can believe in because you don't know about their personal lives! I live in New York, but I have my fair share of fun, but I don't want people talking about what I do in my private life.

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

16. 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.

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



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

19. I have opinions, and I'm not afraid to express them. But I still am a girl, and girls have this thing where they're eager to please…If you're too opinionated, sometimes people are put off by that, and nobody wants to be off-putting.

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


21. My literature professor actually called me and said: "Now that you're on the cover of fashion magazines, you think you don't need to come to class?"


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

23. 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.


24. 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.



25. I always feel like a goofy little kid.


26. What I'm going to do is never, ever make a joke in an interview.

27. People say you can't have anything to write about at my age. I do have life experience. When people underestimate my experience, I get mad.

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


29. 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.




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


31. I would get eaten alive if I did Shakespeare in Britain.



32. You can get praised in Hollywood for a film that opens big at the box office, but that doesn't necessarily mean you are doing good work.


33. I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says: "If you screw this up, they will boo you." And I said "Thanks."

34. (on growing up) I would act out scenes from movies and television shows, and I'd get up on tables and pretend to be a rock star.

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


36. 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.


37. 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.

38. I'm really happy, like a dream come true for me. Life's good, so I can't complain.


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


40. Acting is the glory of my life.

41. I'm not a bitch in real life.


42. (on stripping down for a movie) No matter what the context is in the actual film, it can end up as pornography on the internet.



43. What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopefully that would be reciprocated.


44. (about Jason Lee - A Guy Thing) Absolutely! I'd be at work at 5 o'clock in the morning after working all night. I'd be fading and he'd crack some joke and make me laugh. There's actually a scene in the movie where we're talking and I burst out laughing, but me bursting out laughing is actually from him just making me laugh in one of the outtakes as opposed to me actually being in character. He's hysterical - I stole all of his jokes and took them back to school with me and made everyone think I was really funny.


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