Quotes by Eliza Dushku

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• TV can be a long commitment.
• There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
• The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
• 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.
• 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.
• For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
• I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.
• I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
• 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.
• I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
• I'm a more mature actress now.
• I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.
• 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.
• Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.