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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else. "

" I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet. "

" 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. "

" I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind. "

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

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

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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. "

" I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a more mature actress now. "

" I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house. "

" 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. "

" TV can be a long commitment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom. "