110 Julia Stiles Quotes On Acting, Movies, Life And Fashion
A popular figure since she was a child, Julia Stiles has successfully transitioned from a young actor to an award-winning professional today. Armed with a literature degree from Columbia University, she starred in many coming of age movies that encouraged girls like her to take the unconventional path. Stiles is known for her sharp wit and matter-of-fact opinions, and she tends to play similar roles on the large screen. Her strong characters are often the reason behind the film’s success. In real life, Stiles is vocal about her feminism and is an advocate of veganism. She often writes about these topics as they are close to her heart. We have combined her spunky quotes from her interviews, articles, and her writing for magazines. Take a look at some of her quotes on growing up, acting, movies, life, and fashion.
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.
I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.
Theater is like going to the gym for actors.
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.
Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
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.
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
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’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 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.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/julia-stiles-122446.jpg)
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.
![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.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/julia-stiles-122445.jpg)
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.
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'?
I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.
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.
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.
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.
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.
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 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.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/julia-stiles-122433.jpg)
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.
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.
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 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.
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 took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
It's fun to stay at the Y! M! C! A!
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.
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.
