Eliza Dushku Quotes

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.