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All Quotes by author - Eliza Dushku
" After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor. "
Thought
High School
Job
" Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. "
End
Education
School
" For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football. "
Clothes
Time
Boy
" Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? "
Motivational
Home
True
" Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get. "
You
Growing Up
Growing
" 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. "
Girl
Me
Run
" I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else. "
Everyone
Feeling
You
" I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. "
Like
Dog
Guys
" 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. "
Finding
Love
Science
" I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn't like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors - they just don't know what to do with themselves. You don't know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It's such a shock to your system. "
Think
Doing
Friends
" I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet. "
Hanging
Planet
Think
" I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith. "
Like
Friends
Space
" I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house. "
I Can
Night
House
" 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. "
Safety
Outfit
Remember
" I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training. "
Training
Become
Love
" I'm a more mature actress now. "
More
Mature
Actress
" I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind. "
Afraid
Mind
Self-Confident
" 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. "
Night
Two
Breasts
" I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees. "
Football
Mother
Life
" I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda. "
Admire
Fans
Way
" I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter. "
Will
Think
Powerful
" I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some things that Tyson did along the way that I wasn't too psyched to associate myself with. But back in the day, just as a fighter, what a dream that was to watch and root for him. "
Remember
Day
Sleep
" 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. "
Right
Remember
First
" I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I was born, and so my three brothers were almost like my fathers growing up. So they taught me how to ride a bike and all that stuff. I really was just kind of a guy's girl and just kind of an outspoken - some could say obnoxious - in-your-face kid. "
Think
Girl
Me
" I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about. "
Nature
Mother
Myself
" 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. "
Easy
Acting
Consequences
" 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. "
Start
Wake Up
You
" 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. "
School
Famous
Me
" I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. "
Mom
Strong
Three
" 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. "
Mom
Generation
Father
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