Quotes By Eliza Dushku

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.

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.

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.

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.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

TV can be a long commitment.

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.

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.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

I'm a more mature actress now.