71 Quotes by Eliza Dushku

Sometimes it feels like you’re losing, but even when you’re losing, you’re getting something.

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.

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.

When I’m shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn’t be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don’t get away with anything.

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

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

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She’s a professor in Boston, and she’s been teaching women’s studies for 30 years and international politics.

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.

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.