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

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• I always feel like a goofy little kid.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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• I pretty much grew up in public.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

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• 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.’

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Julia Stiles (18)

Birth:	28th March, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Stiles was born in New York City, the eldest of three children. Her mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, is a potter, and her father, John O'Hara, is a businessman. Stiles is of English, Irish, and German descent. She started acting at the age of eleven, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company.

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