Quotes from Julia Stiles

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.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Obviously, if I'm in Argentina, I'm going to have a steak, but I don't love meat, really. I always think about where the food came from and who had to get it.

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.

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.

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.

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

I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

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.

I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

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.

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

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.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.