Eliza Dushku Quotes

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

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...

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

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

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.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

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

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

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.

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

(when asked how being in prison has changed her angry and aggressive "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" character, Faith:) "How would prison change anyone? There was something about the fact that she`s a Slayer, so she wouldn`t really be there unless she wanted to be because she`s got superhuman strength. She could have busted out of that joint if she really wanted to, but she and Angel developed this relationship. He was leading her down the road to redemption, kind of facing the things she`s done and recovering from that and hopefully being a better her. She`s been in there, doing the time, thinking. She`s still a tough girl, but she really has to suppress her demons a little more. In these past few ("Angel") shows, that`s what we`re seeing -- her teetering on the line between the old her and the new her." (Buffalo News, March 17, 2003)

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

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.

I don`t care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you`d like to be someone else.

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 don`t let guys do hickeys. That`s like a dog marking his territory or something.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I`m a more mature actress now.

TV can be a long commitment.

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

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.