Eliza Dushku Quotes

#1. Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#2. TV can be a long commitment. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#3. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#4. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#5. My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#6. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#7. The letters from jail are always disconcerting. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#8. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#9. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#10. I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#11. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#12. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#13. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#14. You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#15. I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#16. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#17. It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#18. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#19. For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#20. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#21. I'm a more mature actress now. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#22. Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? - Author: Eliza Dushku

#23. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#24. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#25. I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#26. 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 ... - Author: Eliza Dushku

#27. I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#28. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#29. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#30. I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#31. Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#32. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#33. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#34. There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#35. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#36. I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#37. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#38. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#39. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#40. There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#41. Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#42. I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#43. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku

#44. 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. - Author: Eliza Dushku