Lisa Edelstein: I always assumed I'd be doing toothpaste commercials. The probablem was, I always made comercial copy sound psychotic. I guess that's how I found my way here.
Lisa Edelstein: (after doing the voice of Lex Luther‘s sidekick on the animated Superman series) I love doing animation. For American Dad next season, I play a crazed woman from JDate (an online dating service for Jewish singles).
Lisa Edelstein: The show is a medical drama with a twist, the lead [Laurie] is this brilliant, incredible doctor with this amazing talent, but really he has no interest in talking to people. Plus he's addicted to painkillers, which just adds fuel to the fire. House is very CSI-like in that it dives into the human body and gives viewers a tour of the body from the inside -- a look at the veins and the heart... It's dark yet it's funny. It's very intelligently written, sort of like a medical West Wing.
Lisa Edelstein: I was one of those people who was literally famous for doing nothing...I was always a part of the club scene in New York and eventually was able to produce my own musical about AIDS (Positive Me) because of the audience and press I received as a club kid. Eventually I was called in to screen test for this MTV show because word was out I was this neat club kid turned playwright. I got the job and basically was humiliated on the air everyday. I'm an actor, not a hostess. It was horrifying. I had all this baby fat, so I was just huge on camera... I still can't watch one frame of the show. Then I got all this hate mail because I couldn't play the part right... Luckily the show got canceled after seven months. I was so relieved.
Lisa Edelstein: (about the possibility of changing her name) It's not very glamorous, and I lost out in the past because it was too "ethnic", but most of my parents' families were killed in the Holocaust, and it would be denying my family line. It didn’t stop me. I have a great career.
Lisa Edelstein: The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean really that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them
Lisa is an avid practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga.
If you look closely, you'll notice that Lisa's left eye is slightly higher than the right. This condition is called Hyperphoria.
Lisa's birthday is May 21, 1967, which makes her a Taurus.
When asked if she is hoping that House and Cuddy will have sex Lisa answered: "Oh, definitely."
Lisa's Astrological sign is Gemini.
Lisa's father is a doctor, and the actress recalls "going to the emergency room for fun" as a child
Lisa donates time to the animal sanctuary Best Friends.
Lisa practices Ashtanga yoga six days a week.
Lisa studied theater at N.Y.U.
Lisa is left handed
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