Sep 19, 2026
“I stopped taking dance classes because people expected me to be this perfect dancer.” — Julia Stiles | Quote of the Day
Julia Stiles — the 45-year-old actress behind 10 Things I Hate About You, Save the Last Dance and the Bourne films, and an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee for Dexter — on the sentence she gave in her Dancing With the Stars rehearsal package, right after her Wikipedia page surged to 136,443 views in a single day: she stopped taking dance classes because people expected her to be this perfect dancer. It is a confession about what other people's expectations can cost you, and the reason she came back to the ballroom at 45 anyway.