154 Quotes by Julia Stiles

If I’m gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I’ll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I’ll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.

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 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.

My regular school didn’t know what to do with me!

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.

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.

It’s fun to stay at the Y! M! C! A!

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.