Top 44 Eliza Dushku Quotes
#1. There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
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#2. It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
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#3. I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.
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#4. I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know ...
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#5. I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.
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#6. When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
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#7. My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.
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#8. I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith.
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#9. Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
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#10. After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
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#11. If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
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#12. I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
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#13. In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied a cream to our chests to make our breasts grow. I was 10.
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#14. I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
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#15. When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
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#16. I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.
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#17. I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn't like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors - they just don't know what to do with themselves. You don't know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It's such a shock to your system.
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#18. There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
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#19. Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.
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#20. I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet.
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#21. My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
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#22. I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.
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#23. I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some things that Tyson did along the way that I wasn't too psyched to associate myself with. But back in the day, just as a fighter, what a dream that was to watch and root for him.
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#25. We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
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#26. I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
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#27. My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
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#28. I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.
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#29. The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
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#30. I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.
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#31. My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
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#32. I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.
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#33. My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.
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#34. Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.
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#35. No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.
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#36. You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.
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#37. I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
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#38. Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and you never really meet the other characters.
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#39. It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.
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#40. I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away ... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.
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#41. For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
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#42. Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
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#44. Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
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