Julie Benz Quotes

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.

[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that.

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

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.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".

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.

I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.

It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

[Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] pushed me out of my comfort zone [in Buffy The Vampire Slayer ].

I loved playing Darla.

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?!"

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

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.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather.

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.

[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.