Xena Quotes

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.

Now it wasn’t just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was ‘Nope, they’re married, man.'

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make sounds when you fight, and I was like, what are you talking about? You're never going to use it. But they hounded me for a good couple of hours, and basically it was, you need to act, you can't just perform the moves.

As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.

So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

When I did my first episode of 'Xena,' I told my parents this is the worst acting I've ever done.