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" I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it. "
Taylor Schilling
Confidence
Dancing
Now
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" I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it. "
Taylor Schilling
Medicine
Learning
Body
" I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing. "
Taylor Schilling
Children
Cute
Know
" So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?' "
Taylor Schilling
Think
School
Girl
" On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do. "
Taylor Schilling
Time
Me
Heart
" There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience. "
Taylor Schilling
Control
Own
Nothing
" I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world. "
Taylor Schilling
Apple
Work
Woman
" Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't. "
Taylor Schilling
Believe
Walk
Love
" I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners. "
Taylor Schilling
Like
Door
Know
" I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks. "
Taylor Schilling
Fruit
Yogurt
Snacks
" I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff. "
Taylor Schilling
Time
Cool
Hard
" I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that. "
Taylor Schilling
Yoga
Things
Like
" In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me. "
Taylor Schilling
Home
Women
School
" I don't do detoxes or cleanses - they don't really work for me. I have a really moderate, simple routine. I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that. "
Taylor Schilling
Simple
Routine
Like
" Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think. "
Taylor Schilling
Be Yourself
Think
People
" I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!' "
Taylor Schilling
Like
Uniform
High
" I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me. "
Taylor Schilling
Me
Work
Really
" I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier. "
Taylor Schilling
Jeans
Will
Up
" I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards. "
Taylor Schilling
Long
Father
Time
" Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with. "
Taylor Schilling
Become
Whatever
I Am
" If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating. "
Taylor Schilling
Time
Day
Good
" Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track. "
Taylor Schilling
Quiet
Day
End
" As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with. "
Taylor Schilling
Fun
Think
Play
" I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval. "
Taylor Schilling
Time
Experience
School
" I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director. "
Taylor Schilling
Amazing
Director
Much
" I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy. "
Taylor Schilling
Choices
Good
Me
" I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating. "
Taylor Schilling
Space
Work
Life
" Coffee makes me go crazy. "
Taylor Schilling
Me
Coffee
Crazy
" I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me. "
Taylor Schilling
Myself
Fitness
Fun
" I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up. "
Taylor Schilling
Style
College
Body
" I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length. "
Taylor Schilling
Support
Teacher
College