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" I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith. "
Eliza Dushku
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Space
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" 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. "
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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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" Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get. "
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You
Growing Up
Growing
" 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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Hanging
Planet
Think
" 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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Friends
Living
Mom
" There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge. "
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Door
Girl
More
" 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
Easy
Acting
Consequences
" 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
True
She
Me
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Football
Mother
Life
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Mom
Generation
Father
" I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. "
Eliza Dushku
Like
Dog
Guys
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Thought
High School
Job
" 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
Age
Cool
Feel
" There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants. "
Eliza Dushku
Sexy
Attitude
Girl
" 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
Finding
Love
Science
" Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and you never really meet the other characters. "
Eliza Dushku
Games
Meet
Never
" I'm a more mature actress now. "
Eliza Dushku
More
Mature
Actress
" 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
School
Famous
Me
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Girl
Me
Run
" You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet. "
Eliza Dushku
Most
Meet
People
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Think
Doing
Friends
" I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind. "
Eliza Dushku
Afraid
Mind
Self-Confident
" TV can be a long commitment. "
Eliza Dushku
TV
Long
Commitment
" The letters from jail are always disconcerting. "
Eliza Dushku
Jail
Letters
Always
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Think
Girl
Me
" 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. "
Eliza Dushku
Start
Wake Up
You
" 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
Safety
Outfit
Remember
" Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? "
Eliza Dushku
Motivational
Home
True
" 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
Boston
School
Well