Top 30 Eliza Dushku Quotes

Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?

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.

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.

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of ‘Dollhouse.’ Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith.

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.

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.

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.

I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I’m the biggest goof on the planet.

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.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you’re playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a more mature actress now.

I don’t care who you are, everyone has been through it – that feeling where you’d like to be someone else.

TV can be a long commitment.

I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.

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.

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.

You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you’ll ever meet.

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.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

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.

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.

Each year, I say I’m going to go to school next year. It’s inevitable that I’ll end up getting my education.

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.

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

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.