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I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
Eliza Dushku
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Eliza Dushku
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 30
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Watertown
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Eliza Patricia Dushku
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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.
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Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.
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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.
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Rhymes with push-koo I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.
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TV can be a long commitment.
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I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.
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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.
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The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
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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.
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For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
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Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.
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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.
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Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.
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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.
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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.
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