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" 'Big Night' is the best food movie ever made. It's such a celebration of food, and the Italian tradition of celebrating people. Plus, everything looked delicious! "

Julia Stiles

Food

Best

Night

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" I have pessimistic moments when I think I should go on a diet because people are paying money to see movies with exceptional-looking actresses. But being in college has helped me realize that the best thing I can do is to feel good about myself and forget about other people's standards. "

Julia Stiles

Good

College

" 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. "

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Watch

Netflix

" I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling. "

" I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting. "

" 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. "

" I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one. "

" If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time. "

" On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted. "

" 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. "

" 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. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. "

" I would give anything to sit down with my maternal grandmother and have a cup of tea and play Scrabble. She died 10 years ago. "

" 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. "

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

" I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I obviously want to feel good when I am working, but I also want to feel energized and agile all the time. As a New Yorker, I live in the land of plenty, and yet every day I see people who could use a good meal. "

" 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. "

" The true test of a relationship is traveling together. "

" 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 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

Time

Doing

" The platform doesn't really matter to me, whether it's stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it's a story that I would want to watch and if it's a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that's really what gets me. "

Julia Stiles

Theatre

Story

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why. "

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

" It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you. "

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

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

Julia Stiles

Behavior

Human

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward. "

Julia Stiles

Trying

Try