Eliza Dushku Quotes

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Eliza Dushku

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 30, 1980

Go Big, or Go Home

Eliza Dushku

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

Eliza Dushku

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.

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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

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

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

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TV can be a long commitment.

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

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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.

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I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Eliza Dushku