Top 50 Sarah Michelle Gellar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

2. “I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

3. “The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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4. “Everything I am is because of my mom.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

5. “Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I’m just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

6. “I don’t smoke, don’t drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

7. “I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

8. “Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

9. “Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone’s idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

10. “There’s no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

11. “I don’t get the whole getting drunk thing.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

12. “I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

13. “Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children – and adults, too!”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

14. “I think it’s a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that’s the only thing you need to keep you happy. There’s a lot more to being with someone than just love.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

15. “Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

16. “I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlotte’s way better.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

17. “I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

18. “I’m fascinated by twins. It’s such an interesting thing. I’m an only child, so I don’t have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

19. “There’s a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy’s true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

20. “I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

21. “I believe in myself, and I’ve always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

22. “Well, that’s the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don’t know if that’s true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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23. “I’ve always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

24. “I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people – and certainly working moms – are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

25. “When I’m with my kids, I definitely try and be in the moment and wait till the end unless the mess poses a real danger, like slipping. But when I am cooking by myself, I definitely clean as I go to simplify.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

26. “I’m from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times – maybe some would say dirty – jokes. But in jest.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

27. “I don’t do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

28. “My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don’t have a life, which is what I found out the first time.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

29. “You’re forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you’re taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

30. “The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I’ve traveled and I’ve seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

31. “I think that’s what growing up is all about. It’s about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can’t.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

32. “I’m always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

33. “Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That’s the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

34. “I think actually what I’m going to do when I’m done and take my next vacation, is I’m going to go over and start unions in Japan. I’m going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There’s no overtime, so they can just keep going.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

35. “Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

36. “I don’t understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

37. “I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an “appropriate road” – like not on furniture or the walls.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

38. “How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

39. “I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

40. “When you’ve played Buffy – who’s such a strong female role model – it’s really hard for another female character to compare to her.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

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41. “I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it’s pretty simple to let that go.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

42. “I think Buffy was a grown-up. One of the amazing things about the show was that I was able to grow with her. Yes, she started in high school, and then she went to college, and then essentially she was a mother to all the other Slayers, so I always felt like Buffy was a grown-up.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

43. “I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, ‘I’ll take vacation later.’ Sometimes later never comes. I’m definitely leading a much slower life now that I’m not working every single day on a television series.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

44. “But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

45. “I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

46. “I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

47. “It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

48. “When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, ‘women in jeopardy’ – I call them ‘disease of the week’ movies.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

49. “People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps – Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

50. “I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.”

— Sarah Michelle Gellar