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" 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
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Because
Better
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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! "
Julia Stiles
Trying
You
Best
" 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
" When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind. "
Julia Stiles
Great
Need
Own
" 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
" I am not a fan of rats or pigeons. In New York City, they have become very confident. When I was a child, you went on the subways, and the rats would stay down on the tracks, but now they hang out on the platform. "
Julia Stiles
Child
New York
I Am
" 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
" Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena. "
Julia Stiles
Actress
Like
See
" 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 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 pretty much grew up in public. "
Julia Stiles
Grew
Up
Public
" It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible. "
Julia Stiles
Summer
Work
Way
" 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 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
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
Know
You
Real Life
" 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 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 directed a short series for Hulu called 'Paloma,' and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you're not just limited to one job. "
Julia Stiles
Job
You
Short
" The true test of a relationship is traveling together. "
Julia Stiles
True
Test
Relationship
" 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 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
" 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. "
Julia Stiles
School
Great
Job
" In terms of directing a feature, I'd want the story to be right - you know, it's a year of your life, and you have to be focused on one thing, so I want it to be a story that I really, really care about and will enjoy making. "
Julia Stiles
Enjoy
Care
You
" I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing. "
Julia Stiles
Whole
Sexy
Handsome
" I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but played basketball in high school with my left. "
Julia Stiles
School
Basketball
I Am
" Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. "
Julia Stiles
Ideas
Myself
Sometimes
" 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 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 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 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 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