Eliza Dushku famous 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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Jobs #Hook #Actors

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Monday

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

#Girl #Sexy #Attitude

TV can be a long commitment.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Commitment #Long #Tvs

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Messages #Stories #Matter

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Responsibility #People #Age

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

#Growing Up #Growing #Bigs

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

#Mom #Strong #Brother

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Girl #Play #Acting

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

#Self #Mind #Speak

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#School #Boston #Grew Up

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

#Dog #Guy #Territory

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

#Losing #Sometimes #Like You

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Mother #Feminist #Parent

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

#Feelings #Care #Who You Are

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Trying #Shooting #Embarrassed

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

#World #Sexist #Stills

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

#Cereal #Sound #Breakfast

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Stars #School #Boston

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

#People #Sensitive #Sweetest

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Mother #Country #Russia

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Mom #Teaching #Boston

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Mom #Events #Rooms

I'm a more mature actress now.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Actresses #Mature

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

#Mom #Feminist #My Mom

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Girl #Night #Two

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Lying #Years #Nuts

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

#Football #Boys #Clothes

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

#School #Years #Next Year

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.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Jeans #Safety #Clerks

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Jail #Letters