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" 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
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Me
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" The best working experiences I've had are with directors who want to create with you while you're on set. I prefer a much freer environment. That's why I'm always trying to mess things up, just to know that I can! "
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" I'm terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he's disgusting, he's offensive. I think that it would be embarrassing for our country to have him sit down with world leaders and try and have a conference or even take a photo op. So we'll see what happens, but it's a very pivotal time in the U.S. "
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" We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on shows. But it was just a fun thing to do; I never thought about it as a profession. That started as a fluke; my mother had a friend who was an artist with a theater company, and I started going there after school because my mom knew I'd be safe. "
Julia Stiles
Mom
Mother
Fun
" 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! "
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People
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Fast
" 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 like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going. "
Julia Stiles
Behavior
Me
Human
" I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature. "
Julia Stiles
Early
Premature
Very
" I turn on the radio. I'm a really big fan of old-fashioned dial radio. I love WNYC and NPR and also 88.3 in New York, which is the jazz station, and it's usually good for background music. If I'm not in New York City or by a traditional radio, I'll stream it on my phone, although I usually try not to look at my phone first thing in the morning. "
Julia Stiles
Good
Morning
New York
" I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.' "
Julia Stiles
Waiting
Me
Team
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Wish
Think
Know
" I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one. "
Julia Stiles
Move On
Think
Lose
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Meet
Myself
Time
" 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
" 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 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? "
Julia Stiles
Danger
Brain
Want
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Red
Time
Think
" 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
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Think
Watch
Time
" I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying. "
Julia Stiles
Start
Watching
Sentimental
" At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult. "
Julia Stiles
Life
Conflict
Emotions
" I went to a Chekhov play with my grandmother, and at the end, I was talking about how the first act was so boring. And my grandmother didn't see that at all. I realized it was because I need, like, the constant images changing. I wrote a paper about this. "
Julia Stiles
Boring
End
Need
" I studied Shakespeare in college, but not theatrically, more in terms of literature, and then I kind of took a break from it. Now there's resurgence in my appreciation for him. It's amazing: there are so many book titles and song titles that come just from lines that he wrote. "
Julia Stiles
Amazing
Book
College
" Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.' "
Julia Stiles
How
Smile
Set
" 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
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Down
Play
Sit
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Some
Read
Projects
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Wonderful
Work
Group
" If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time. "
Julia Stiles
Needs
Back Up
Mean
" I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I responded to that character. That was one of my first big jobs, so I think maybe I lucked out, and casting thought that I was a good match for it. Since then, as I've gotten older, I'm a much more happy, joyful, almost carefree person. "
Julia Stiles
Think
Hate
Happy
" 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
Search