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" I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else. "
Eliza Dushku
Everyone
Feeling
You
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet. "
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" 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. "
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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 mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death. "
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" Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" The letters from jail are always disconcerting. "
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