Julia Stiles Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

Fundamentally women and men are different.

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.

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.

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

I pretty much grew up in public.

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

Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

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.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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