Top 44 Julia Stiles Quotes

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.

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.

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.

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.

Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

I like to stay balanced in life, so I don’t have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I obviously want to feel good when I am working, but I also want to feel energized and agile all the time. As a New Yorker, I live in the land of plenty, and yet every day I see people who could use a good meal.

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.

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, proudly. I think it’s her time. I think she’s very experienced, I think she’d make a good president. I also think it would be monumental to have the first female president in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance classes, take me to jazz clubs.

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.

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.

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.

I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching ‘Bridesmaids’ and start crying.

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.

With film, so much is in the director’s hands. Once something is cut together – unless you’re in the editing room – you don’t really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of ‘Mona Lisa Smile.’

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.

One minute, I really am in awe of filmmakers, and I want to be working in film, and then the next minute, I get the itch to get back on stage.

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.

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.

If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.

‘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!

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.

I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.

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.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people’s perspectives and think about where they’re coming from.

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.

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.’

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.

I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Sally’s Pigeons’ when I first started acting.

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.

Whatever its origin, I’d like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

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.

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.

My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can’t go on a street corner and start reciting a monologue. Acting is very collaborative, and you always need other people with you – mainly an audience.

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.

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.

I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing.

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.