Lucy Lawless Quotes

22 quotes in 414 categories

• We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
• There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.
• I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.
• We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.
• My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.
• For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the…
• 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…
• Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.
• Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
• When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a…
• I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's…
• I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down…
• I just look at what's the most fun thing I can do next. I'm not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to…
• It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.
• I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.
• Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and…
• I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.
• One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she…
• Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating…
• Who I think is actually doing great things for the appearance of women is that Kardashian girl. Kim Kardashian is giving an alternative. I don't…

Browse Lucy Lawless Quotes by Category