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- "Treat everyone the same....until you find out they're an idiot."
- "It's better to flame out than to chicken out."
- "Fame does not keep you warm at night. Fame is a double-edged sword."
- "You've just got to make it happen for yourself; nobody ever hands you anything on a plate, no matter who you are. No way, man You have to fight for everything. There's always someone new coming up behind you, so you just keep reinventing yourself- take the longrange view, and have courage." - Diva Mag March 2007
- [On D'Anna Biers] "I can do a thousand shades of creepy. [Laughs] Yup, yup, yup. Psychopaths 'R' Us." - iF Mag December 2006
- "It's about joy; seize the day. It's your life — make it your sculpture and not what other people think looks pretty.” - AfterEllen.com November 2006
- "People don't like me to say I'm a character actress. I got told years ago not to say that. But in my heart of hearts, I am. And I will take a fascinating little role over a big load of nothing any day." - SciFi.com November 2006
- [On her fans and Lucy Lawless Feel the Love Week] "So many of my fans are brilliant-smart women that have huge hearts and great ethics. I have come to really love them. Have you heard of Lucy Lawless Feel the Love Week? My fans are so amazing. In October, they take one week where they try to enrich the community that they live in. It is in the spirit of the Xena show. They have taken it and made it a movement for spreading love. They have given meaning to my career. It's incredible to see people care for strangers. I am totally humbled by Feel the Love Week." - Dot SoCal GLBT News Mag February 2007
- "There were a lot of Xena fans in the audience. Iknow a lot of them by face. The ones I've come to know are terrific. These people are amazing and loyal and I try to be loyal to them." - LOTL February 2007
- [If she was playing a lesbian in a film, who would she want as her co-star] "Renee O'Connor. Now I've got a question for you. The number one and two lesbian icons in the world are Xena and Gabrielle—NOT in that order. So is it a compliment to me that they want to be Gabrielle? Or is it a compliment to Renee that they want to be Gabrielle?" - Windy City Times September 2007
- [What was it like to play a warrior woman when really you are a domestic goddess] "Man, you pulled that one out of the fire. I am not worthy of domestic goddess, but it is a total honor and a riot to be a Warrior Princess. It's better than being perceived as the world's greatest housewife. I suck at that stuff. I feel being portrayed as Xena is way more fabulous than who I really am." - Dot SoCal GLBT News Mag February 2007
- "If I'm part of something that has such a positive influence on society, I should be counting my blessings."
- [Was the Xena outfit comfortable] "Not at first because they would put boning in the corset. It would cover up those floating ribs that are so important for breathing, so I'd feel like I was having panic attacks. But it just became a second skin after a while. It was very functional, once I got over the modesty factor. It admit to being a little bit embarrassed the first couple weeks because I'd never worn anything so short." - Smithsonian Mag Nov 2006
- "I don't see people's ages and I don't see what they look like. I get a good feeling for who somebody really is." - New Zealand Woman's Weekly June 2006
- [Hi Lucy! How are you?] "Hi. I am a box of birds." [You're a 'box of birds'?] "That means, very well indeed, thank you." - Windy City Times September 2007
- "I haven't failed yet, but I live in fear."
- “I really am a ball buster,” she says. “I didn't realize how scary I am, but straight men get spooked by me. It's like they're attracted to you but fear you. There's definitely a dominance issue there.” - AfterEllen.com Nov 2006
- [What does she miss most about Xena] "Not that I miss it, but what I value most of that memory is the camaraderie. The fact that I worked on a show where there was zero bitchiness. There was no finger-pointing, no blaming and the show was even greater than the sum of its parts. And how lucky was I to get a co-star like Renee O'Connor who was not a pain in the ass, who was good at her job, who was inspirational to me [ and ] who never stopped working like a Trojan? She was really my greatest ally." - Windy City Times September 2007
- [What actors or directors would she like to work with in the future] "Well, who wouldn't want to work with the Scorsese's of the world. But, I'd also like to work with Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller. You know who is amazing? Shirley Maclaine. To me, she is one of the powerhouse actresses of the last 50 years. I saw 'Two for the Seesaw' one night, about 3am, and was just transfixed. That woman is incredible. I want to work with anyone who's fun." - She Mag February 2007
- [What would she say to women who are displeased with their own body type] "I'm not much of a lecturer about that sort of thing. Just be kind. I'm not always in good shape. The last two months, I've completely relaxed and put on ten pounds. I allow myself that for a month, or six weeks, every year. It's like, 'Oh, what the hell!'. And then, I get back on the treadmill for the rest of the year. I'm a hard worker and keep fit. I try to differentiate between what is just ego and worrying about what other people think of you, and what you genuinely feel about yourself. If you're worrying about how others esteem you, that's something to drop. If it's about how you esteem yourself, then you really have to attend to that. I really have to attend to that, myself. And, you should just have real respect. Our bodies work so hard and they hold us up every day, so lets give them a little respect." - She Mag February 2007
- "I bet not even Cher has fans of this caliber!"
- [For some of us you seemed to have dropped off the map since Xena] "I kind of did drop off the map. I wanted to have a couple of extra kids and that means that my focus was really not so much on career. To come back and reintroduce yourself takes a lot of doing and I've had lots of opportunities to be more famous than I am and I turned them down for my own reasons. I'm not sorry that I'm not doing network television in the States. It's always about being offered this seven-year contract. Being a single lead means you work really super-long hours. To do seventy, eighty hour weeks is standard. I think you have to have a crushing need for attention to want to cultivate that sort of career. Celebrity seems to be its own currency, or else how could you explain somebody like Paris Hilton? But because I had chosen to have kids I wanted them to have a real mother. If my kids are miserable, I'm miserable. I guess I don't value other people's opinions of me more than I do my own. It doesn't help your career to go away but I'm not sorry. I just knew that it was important to me to have kids. I didn't want to wait too long. My daughter was already eleven by the time my second child was born. I knew I had to knock it off quickly and just let the chips fall where they may. Having kids was something I'd regret not doing. Whatever I'm doing seems like the best thing I've ever done to me. The TV critics have always been fond of me and didn't like me doing the crassly named Vampire Bats (2005). But I was so attracted to living in Louisiana I just had to take the gig. It was fantastic. I got to see New Orleans at its best right up until the time of the hurricane. I just see it all as part of a rich life." - LOTL February 2007
- [On filming Burn Notice in Miami] "It was amazing. Bloody, hot, though. Oh, my God, that would melt the balls off a brass monkey. I've been in some pretty hot situations and loved it, in the bayous of New Orleans in the heat of summer, many times. But holy cow, nothing prepared me for Miami.And you thought getting in the shade would be some relief, and it just wasn't. It's just as hot in the shade as out, but it was a joyful experience, and I'm so grateful to Bruce for forcing me on them." - Zap2It September 2007
- "I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young men are getting a new view of women: an unapologetic woman."
- "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."
- "I think being tall is an obstacle to working in Hollywood because men don't want to be seen with a woman who's towering over them. Since most roles are for love interest that can be a problem. I don't care, I'm having a wildly great life, and I never spend a second worrying about what I can't have." - LOTL February 2007
- [Is it true she was the class clown] "That's how I could get by. I could skive off if I was funny. And it happened really by accident. The teacher was Miss Moss, and I was nattering away to somebody, and the teacher said, "Are you listening Lucy Ryan, are you listening? Lucy Ryan!" And I looked up and said, "I'm sorry Miss Moss, I wasn't listening, what was that?" And everybody laughed. And she laughed. And I got away with it. I learned that I didn't necessarily have to bow to authority if I was funny. And that started a whole chain of events of getting away with things just because you could tell a good joke. I come from a family with a lot of boys - a very quick-witted family and pretty damned funny so you had to be quick on your feet to not get pummelled." - LOTL February 2007
- [What are her future plans] "I have no idea but I think that's what I like. Knowing where I'm going to be in seven years time would depress me. Some people like that stability. I need things to be spicy, mixed up and just an adventure. I'm going to Africa this year with World Vision. All of this is just part of this thing people call a career. I just call it my life." - LOTL February 2007
- [After the birth of her third child] "I feel I've done my bit to overpopulate the planet and I can stop now."
- [Her first acting role] "As a little girl, my best buddy and I would adapt stories and put them on for the old folks' home. My first paying gig was working on a comedy sketch show down in New Zealand." - Gay Chicago Mag September/October 2007
- [Does she still have her Xena costume at home] "I think I gave my costume to the Smithsonian. I don't think I have any left. It's there right now next to the Fonz's jacket, who I ran into yesterday. I was taking my in-laws to a swanky hotel for lunch, and Henry Winkler was there. I have met him before, and he is the nicest man in Hollywood, truly the nicest, sweetest, most generous open-spirited human being there is. The fact that he would make a fuss for my in-laws, and they felt cool I was newly old Hollywood in their eyes because I introduced them to the Fonz!"- Gay Chicago Mag September/October 2007
- [On working with Larry David on her 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' guest appearance] “He's quiet and standoffish and doesn't really want to say hello or anything, but I was determined to be as obnoxious as possible. When I shot the episode, I had just received the new Xena [greeting] card that Hallmark puts out, so I wrote on it "Welcome to the Lucy Lawless Experience" and gave it to Larry. You open it up and it screams out the Xena war cry. He loved me ever after. So my advice to anyone trying to get on Larry's good side: Have your own Hallmark card." - BuddyTV.com September 2007
- [On Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm] “To me, that was the ideal working situation. It is all unscripted, but everyone is totally relaxed. Larry David is such a doll. I so enjoyed working with him, and we had a good time…. I seem to make him laugh. I don't know why." - BuddyTV.com September 2007
- [Reporter tells Lucy she was upset that she didn't win celeb duets] "I need more people like you voting. I think there was something in my nature not ready to be a winner. I am a newcomer. I feel so lucky that I could go out and take it, and that is a fatal flaw. I am over that, by the way, but at the time, looking back because I was just learning to sing then, and it was only after the very last night and all the judging was done when I was able to sing a song of my choice on my own in my key when something happened and just broke in my head and I was, like, I stumbled on my thing when I sang Don't Tell Mama with the go-go dancers, when I went, shit, this is me, this is authentic to me. I just thank that show. I just learned to sing last November, and I have been doing it ever since." - Gay Chicago Mag September/October 2007
- [About her eldest son] "Julius has been so connected to me in a way I almost can't understand. You almost can't understand somebody loving you that much." - New Zealand Woman's Weekley June 2006
- "People of the South are amazing. The people of Louisiana have an unfailing generosity. It is truly a part of American culture worth saving or regenerating." - The Fresno Bee October 2005
- [How did celeb duets find her] "My friend Eric Vitros, who is a famous singing teacher, they had approached him, and they approached my agents, who turned it down without consulting me because I don't do reality television, at least not before. Finally, Eric said they keep bothering me to get you to do this reality show, and I am like, what is it? The chance to sing with Smokey Robinson, are you kidding me'.' I totally want to do it! I told my agents to make the deal. My reps thought it would make me look tacky. I was like, I don"t care This is such a challenge." - Gay Chicago Mag September/October 2007
- [On a Xena movie] "I sure would have liked to have done it, but it would seem that that boat has sailed. They'll remake it at some point because it's too good a characters not to revisit. Then they'll come and ask me to play her mother, and I'll say 'Fuck off!' Or worse, I'll do it!" (laughs) "I've come to realize the place of career in my life. It's a delight. I love it, but it's not where my happiness lies. It's the icing on the cake. It's crazy to think that your job is going to bring you happiness. You have to be happy already, and then you do the job."
- [On performing 'The Vagina Monologues'] "While I never felt disadvantaged by having a vagina...I never realised it was a privilege."
- "Live performance is always a gamble and you just have to flow with whatever happens."
- [On why she loves playing 'Meg' on Xena: WP] "I don't know. It's like, secretly, that's the real Lucy."
- [When asked if she was playing a madam on her CSI guest appearance] "Oh yeah. These days I play hookers and cops and everything in between. (She's) embroiled in a murder case and may turn out to be u to her neck in a very unpleasant serial mufer. I like to play people who are morally imperiled. I'm very drawn to that. In fact, the more degenerate the better."
- [Is she a CSI fan] "I am a real-life crime fanatic. I TIVO everything on TruTV...I'm a bit of a loony for that sort of thing. I'm really interested in what seemingly ordinary human beings are capable of."
- [If you could spend the day with someone living or dead who would it be] "Jesus' mother. I want to ask her how she feels about things. And I could ask her, "So, what was he like as a teen?" - Daily Herald December 2007
- [About her singing] "My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice" - Chicago Daily Herald October 2007
- [After being told by a reporter that there were lesbians all over Chicago jealous that she was talking to her] "Well, good. I hope it continues, because I love my girls." - Gay Chicago Mag September/October 2007
- "I often do roles just to help out a friend. I try to do a good job. Generally speaking, I only want to work with people I love and respect."
- [on working on Bedtime Stories] "The problem with working at Camp-Sandler is that you are ruined for working anywhere else. It is seriously the most fun crew I've been with since Xena. Comedy is always more fun than drama to work on."
- [On the final episode of Xena] " I don't know why people expected us to walk off into the sunset. It was the strong choice, the bold choice, the risky choice, and I know some people don't like it, but the characters come full circle. She lived by the sword, and by golly she died by the sword!"
- [Laughingly, on photo shoots] "Everybody always puts a sword in my hand."
- [On astrology] "I'm loathe to believe in New Age mumbo jumbo. It wouldn't occur to me to consult my horoscope unless it came across my gaze as I was flipping to the comics."
- [Comparisons with Madonna] "I think Madonna's an admirable creature, but I never intended to model my career on hers. Xena's breastplates never went all pointy."
- "I sat in a restaurant and watched a man hit his girlfriend outside in the street. I wanted to intervene, but I can't really fight. Instead, I talked to the woman when she came in to the restaurant, telling her she didn't have to stand for that."
- "Hurricane Katrina has lifted the lid on our dirty laundry - the poverty that we have ignored for too long. It seems a bitter joke that, like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, New Orleans natives have come to rely on the kindness of strangers. But, to me, this care is the glue that binds us. You cannot have civilisation where there is no trust or respect between strangers." - New Zealand Woman's Weekly January 2007
- "I have to tell you that performing on stage like that was such a drug, and since then I've been craving it. Something crazy happened to me, especially on the last night of the show, and I can't think about anything else. When i sang Tell Mama it was like, 'I've only just begun. I'm done being underestimated and this Mama is coming out of the kitchen. I'm so proud of what I did because it was something I did entirely on my own. Again, I had to fight for it, but it was worth it. I feel like I'm moving into a new phase of my life now and it's thrilling." - Cult Times Mag January 2007
- "I'm a terrible cook of all foods. I have no interest. I'm really good at cooking 20 minute meals that are really nutritious, pretty darn tasty and only using one pot because i don't like cleaning up. My husband's a chef and he makes unbelievable, ungodly mess and he doesn't like cleaning up either. you know when you first get married, you strike some dumb deals where you go, oh I'll cook and you clean, you go okay that sounds fair and then you just regret it forever. I've reneged on that bet actually."
- "We had a little box on the table, with coins for the little African babies. That concept of giving to those less fortunate has been deeply ingrained in me and it's a pleasure to be able to give my voice to help organisations like World Vision." - New Zealand Woman's Weekly January 2007
- "I recommend if you have a kooky idea or if you have a genuine compliment, instead of being shy and not paying it, just say it! Pay the compliment! Just cuz you're alive. Don't miss those opportunities to spread a little joy."
- "It's ridiculous how much attention the media pay to silicone-inflated women parading generous curves on incredibly skinny bodies. They're terrible male fantasies. i don't think I'm a typical woman either, but at least I have some muscle. The pint is that girls who look up to Xena can see that they don't have to correspond to the preposterous kind of fashion-magazine images that make girls anorexic. I've got to say anorexia sort of bores me. You think you're going to get respect and attention but it's quite the opposite. People are turned off, people dance around you. It's bad for your health and it's unhygienic. I lose patience with it. To any girls out there who are thinking of it, or are just getting into it, just quit your bloody nonsense! Enough already! It's a total waste of time. I speak from a little bit of experience. I used to quite like bulimia. I used to think that was fun."
- [On bulimia] "There was no part of it that would help me in my life. No part of it."
- (when asked if she considers herself funny) "Usually? I don't even consider myself usually. Soccer mom, that's what I consider myself. Yeah, I think I'm a funny person. I started out in comedy. You know I remember the moment i realized the value of comedy is when I was eight years old and I was sitting in class and I realized that if I just acted really stupid, I could get away with a lot of stuff. And it would diffuse a lot of tension and the teachers would focus on you. I just found out the value of being a funny dunce at times."
- "I once bungee jumped out of a helicopter. It was an 800 foot fall, and i wasn't that impressed. You're so high above the ground that you don't get the sense of imminent death like you do when you are jumping off, say, a bridge."
- "I certainly want to work with Bruce and Renee and Ted again...The point being is that we would love to work together, but these things are harder to coalesce than people might think."
- "I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory."
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