Buffy was my stepping stone back in to this business. I took two years off making movies to finish high school.
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Go big or go home. It's true. What do you have to lose?
I always wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor.
I am still not quite famous, so gossip doesn't happen very often.
I can street fight, but in terms of precision and martial arts, they have a very specific style.
I definitely started thinking I was a little tougher than I am. I'd try to get in people's faces.
I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
I eat a ton. Bt I'm active. I lead a busy lifestyle.
I found myself being a role model to young girls. And young girls make up a huge part of our society. It's a really hard place to be when you're a young woman in our society.
I had to smoke for a role when I was 15, and it kind of stuck. I made all these plans to quit this year, but then I got a role in a De Niro movie, and I smoke in that.
I hate whiners. I understand that the pressure can be a lot, and I have days where I just want to scream, but it comes with the territory.
I know I'm not the most informed person, but I'm not the least informed person either.
I love a guy who can make me laugh, and I definitely dig intelligence. I get turned on by book smarts.
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.
I love my family. Any chance I can get to see them, it's the coolest thing.
I never sat down and mapped out this career of mine. I've always kind of flown by the seat of my pants.
I play the girlfriend of Robert DeNiro's son. I was totally star struck. He's so talented.
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 think I'm getting typecast. I know I play tough characters, but there's more than one side to me.
I think some things are just too personal to talk about.
I think there's a lot more to the bad girl than just evil. I try to bring a little understanding to the part. People always throw rocks at things they don't understand.
I think we all have different people in us.
I was kind of this really hard Boston chick. That worked well for Faith and the creation of the character.
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
I'm a more mature actress now.
I'm doing my best and being myself, and it seems to have worked so far.
I'm having kind of a lucky streak right now and I want to keep riding it.
I'm not the most graceful person, and I had to work with the choreographer on the cheerleader routines.
I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.
I'm very moody. I'm sort of prone to doing and saying exactly what I feel.
I've never been dumped. I have no idea what I'll do when that happens. I fall in and out of love pretty easily. I'm really emotional and passionate.
If I feel something, that's all there is for me at the time. But I also have a raging case of attention deficit disorder.
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.
If you throw yourself into the spotlight, you can't just turn it off and on whenever you want. It takes patience.
In high school I had a lot of aggression, and that's why I was perfect for roles like Buffy.
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.
In other shows, I used to get to hang out with the Teamsters and kick back.
It was nice working on Angel, because it shoots in Los Angeles. I can drive myself to work, drive home and visit my friends or my brothers.
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.
It's kind of cool to shoot off and do a movie for three months. You're in, you're out, boom, you get the final product.
My brothers weren't too happy when I came home and thought I was a big toughie and would try and start with them.
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
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.
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.
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
The state of affairs in the world right now, I just feel like everyone's doing the grind and working to get by.
There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
They see me drinking coffee and smoking and realize that I'm not a practicing Mormon.
Things just keep happening right after another. I never really think about where I'll be in five years. I'm just waiting for things to happen.
TV can be a long commitment.
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.
We weren't exactly a family of film buffs. Growing up, we only went to the theater twice.
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.
When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later.
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.
When you're doing a love scene, it can be deceiving, like, maybe I'm in love with this person. But I try not to get involved with people I work with. I don't need the added hassle.
When you're on a comedy, you're thinking, I need to do something serious.
You have to draw a line between real life and fantasy. I think I'm pretty good at creating that buffer with people that I meet.
You've got a character that people count on and see on their screen every week. They really absorb this stuff and use it.
Eliza grew up in a Mormon household.
In September 2002, Eliza made the 9th spot in Australian Empire Magazine's Sexiest Female Movie Stars.
Eliza sometimes acts on stage at the Children's Theatre signing for the deaf.
Eliza starred in the horror movie Wrong Turn(2003), but will not be starring in the sequel, set to release in 2007.
In 2004, Eliza was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Female TV Star for her work on the series
In late 2005, Eliza was in the off Broadway play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.
Eliza's middle name is Patricia.
Eliza lives in Los Angeles, Ca.
Eliza is half-Albanian and half-Danish.
Her Dushku family were the only family with that surname in America in 1920, and were living in Massachusetts.
Her father, Philip, is an administrator/teacher in the Boston Public Schools.
Eliza is good friend of
Eliza hosted the 2005 Winter Venatian Masquerade in New York.
Eliza attended the San Diego Comic Con on July 25th, 2004 for Q&A.
Her trade mark is that she often plays young debutantes "on the edge".
Eliza has ststaed that her favorite movie is The Godfather.
Her favorite TV show is
According to the Chinese Astrology Calender, she was born in the year on the Monkey.
Eliza planned to attend Suffolk University and study to be an English major but backed out the last minute because she got the role of 'Faith' on
Eliza was voted 9th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the September 2002 issue of Austalian Empire Magazine.
She has studied the Piano, Drums and Dance; Jazz, Tap, and Ballet.
Eliza's parents divorced before she was born.
Eliza describes her mother as the biggest influence on her life.
Eliza was a tomboy growing up.
She was ranked #13 in the Maxim Magazine "Hot 100" list in 2002.
She was considered for the role of Paige Matthews on
She hosted the 2005 Winter Venatian Masquerade in New York.
She was legally emancipated at 17 so she could start her work on
Her character Faith survivied the
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