Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stilesis an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Stiles began acting at age 11 and made her screen debut as Erica Dansby in six episodes of the television series Ghostwriter. Her first film role was in I Love You, I Love You Not, followed by a leading role in the thriller Wicked, for which she was awarded the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She went on to gain prominence for her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 March 1981
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.
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.
Theater is like going to the gym for actors.
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.
Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.
I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.
As an actor, you're only one little piece of the puzzle; you're fulfilling someone else's vision. If you're involved earlier on, you're kind of creating your own.
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.
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.