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" I love the sun and salt water, which is not good for your skin and therefore not good for your image. I'm terrible about protecting my skin as well. "
Julia Stiles
Love
Good
Water
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" I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you're being photographed all the time, and you don't like having a bad photograph taken, and if you're super, super thin, chances are you're never going to look fat in a picture. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I pretty much grew up in public. "
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Grew
Up
Public
" I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting. "
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Video
Started
" '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! "
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Food
Best
Night
" Some of the best projects I've worked on - 'Dexter,' the 'Bourne' series - were leaps of faith. I couldn't read the scripts in advance. "
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Read
Projects
" I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful. "
Julia Stiles
Underdog
Baseball
Team
" 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. "
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Time
Doing
Search
" I wish I could be on 'Politically Incorrect.' Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name. "
Julia Stiles
Name
Wish
Think
" 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
Like
Try
" I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature. "
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Early
Premature
Very
" I always feel like a goofy little kid. "
Julia Stiles
Kid
Always
Feel
" Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena. "
Julia Stiles
Actress
Like
See
" I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway. "
Julia Stiles
Think
Anything
Just
" I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke. "
Julia Stiles
Working
Courage
I Can
" I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying. "
Julia Stiles
Start
Watching
Sentimental
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Fashion
Life
Man
" My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from. "
Julia Stiles
Where
Always
Me
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Watch
Because
Better
" I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing. "
Julia Stiles
Whole
Sexy
Handsome
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Grateful
Work
People
" I love the interactive nature of theater. I just craved it. As much as I love working on a film or TV set, most of the storytelling happens in the editing, whereas when you're doing a play, the storytelling is in your hands as an actor. "
Julia Stiles
You
Play
Nature
" My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood. "
Julia Stiles
Music
Dance
Childhood
" When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did. "
Julia Stiles
Child
Me
Mom
" I always thought it would be really fun to play a villain. I feel like I haven't done that yet. Not an anti-hero, not someone who is flawed, but somebody who is just straight-up bad. "
Julia Stiles
Thought
Villain
Feel
" Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast! "
Julia Stiles
People
Play
Fast
" 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
Me
Good
College
" 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. "
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People
Help
New York
" I so find Harold Pinter and David Mamet's writing to be exciting, and obviously there aren't that many female - at least with Mamet, there aren't that many good female roles. But I always thought it would be interesting to play one of the guy roles. "
Julia Stiles
Guy
Writing
Interesting