Eliza Dushku Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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'm a more mature actress now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.

When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.

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 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...

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

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

TV can be a long commitment.

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.

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.

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

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

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

Anything and everything at any given time is sort of the point I think. We're dealing in real situations and that's why we have our handlers there, to hopefully protect us from the bad, but yes; each show I think that sort of thing is going to go down because it's obviously not a perfect system and it's not a perfect world.

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

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

Joss is doing a little movie called Wonder Woman. I'd slap on the Dukes for that!