Julia Stiles famous quotes

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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 #Taken #Men
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
-- Julia Stiles

#Analyzing #Behavior #Human Behavior
I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.
-- Julia Stiles

#Thinking #Fans #Actors
I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.
-- Julia Stiles

#Kids #Thinking #Guy
I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
-- Julia Stiles

#College #People #Trying
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

#Crush #Moving #Thinking
I pretty much grew up in public.
-- Julia Stiles

#Grew Up #Grew
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
-- Julia Stiles

#Winning #Roles #Oscars
I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
-- Julia Stiles
I always feel like a goofy little kid.
-- Julia Stiles

#Children #Kids #Littles
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.
-- Julia Stiles

#Stars #Jobs #College
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
-- Julia Stiles

#Ideas #Track #Sometimes
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
-- Julia Stiles

#Beautiful #Fashion #Vintage
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.
-- Julia Stiles

#Thinking #Family And Friends #Way
I always loved how people like Jon Voight and Laurence Olivier shocked you every time they came on-screen. They were so different each time. That's what I hope to do with acting â€” be the chameleon and not get stuck in a type.
-- Julia Stiles

#People #Acting #Different
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.
-- Julia Stiles

#Writing #Character #Thinking
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

#Get Better #Watches #Actors
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

#Jobs #School #Thinking
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 #People #Fans
I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.
-- Julia Stiles

#Girl #Running #Powerful
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.
-- Julia Stiles

#Thinking #Outlandish

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