Eliza Dushku Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

TV can be a long commitment.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a more mature actress now.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

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

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

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.