Top 30 Eliza Dushku Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Go Big, or Go Home.”

— Eliza Dushku

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2. “Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?”

— Eliza Dushku

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3. “No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it’s just the best gift there is. And it’s free.”

— Eliza Dushku

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4. “I’m self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.”

— Eliza Dushku

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

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

— Eliza Dushku

7. “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

8. “I love leather and it’s great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I’m with Grandma it’s flowers, and when I’m out on the town scoping guys, you know...”

— Eliza Dushku

9. “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

10. “It’s still a pretty sexist world out there and someone’s got to stand up and say something.”

— Eliza Dushku

11. “I’m a more mature actress now.”

— Eliza Dushku

12. “I don’t let guys do hickeys. That’s like a dog marking his territory or something.”

— Eliza Dushku

13. “My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.”

— Eliza Dushku

14. “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

15. “I don’t care who you are, everyone has been through it – that feeling where you’d like to be someone else.”

— Eliza Dushku

16. “My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.”

— Eliza Dushku

17. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

18. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

19. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

20. “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

21. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

22. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

23. “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.”

— Eliza Dushku

24. “Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.”

— Eliza Dushku

25. “TV can be a long commitment.”

— Eliza Dushku

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

— Eliza Dushku

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

— Eliza Dushku

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

— Eliza Dushku

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29. “The letters from jail are always disconcerting.”

— Eliza Dushku

30. “Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.”

— Eliza Dushku