Julie Benz Quotes
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I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.
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That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.
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And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
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Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting. I learned so much with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. They encouraged us to make creative choices with our characters.
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You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
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The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.
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I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get.
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I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.
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I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
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It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.
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[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel.
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I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.
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[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.
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I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.
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I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he casts me as a 400-year-old vampire from hell. It was, like, "What?!"
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When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.
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I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather.
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Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.
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[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!
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It's a moment that I will be asked about for the rest of my life as an actor, and I carry that moment with pride, that Rita [in Dexter] had such an impact and that it was such a gut-wrenching moment for audience members.
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I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.
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I loved playing Darla.
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During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
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I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.
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It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
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So it's nice to know that Rita had that impact, and it was nice to end a character on a high note like that. But, again, in the moment... I always say, nobody was more devastated than me [from Rita's death in Dexter]!
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I loved everything about that movie [Jawbreaker]. The fashion, the friendship amongst all of us girls... it was great. We had a blast filming it, and it was really wonderful. It was a very special time.
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I read the script [Havenhurst] and I went to bed, but I woke up because somebody had knocked on my door. Or at least it seemed like somebody knocked on my door at, like, 4 in the morning.
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I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].
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We shot [Hi Honey, I'm Home] on location in Orlando, Florida, so I was there by myself. And I remember I was late one day, and Gale Gordon pulled me aside, and he said, "Honey, when it says you have to be here at 10 a.m., you need to be here at 9:30." And ever since, I've always been a half-hour early to my call time!
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