"I didn't have anything in common with the kids. Many students were used to having everything handed to them on a silver platter. Everything I got I worked hard for and got on my own." - Soap Opera Digest 1994
 

"I never liked to talk about my acting because if I did, I was branded a snob, and if I didn't, I was still a snob." - Soap Opera Digest 1994
 

"I was scared enough just to be working with Susan, and then I was like, "I'm her what? Daughter? Excuse me?!" - Soap Opera Weekly 1994
 

"I'm sorry, but 90210? Hello! I go to school and our seniors sure don't look like that!" - Soap Opera Weekly 1993
 

"You shouldn't be going out with someone just to say you're going out with them. You're going out with them, hopefully, because you enjoy who they are and they enjoy who you are. You have to be true to yourself, and I think that if you're not yourself anymore and you're not happy with what you're doing, then you've crossed the line." - Seventeen 1994
 

"Everyone [on the Buffy set] agrees that I've won the Most Changed Award. I'm calmer in some weird way. I've learned that I can juggle things." - TV Guide 1997
 

"Kids were hard on me. I was always excluded from everything because I was different. That's difficult when you're a child." - TV Guide 1997
 

"It was amazing, playing a psycholoony. I got to attempt suicide. I shot at people. It was great." - TV Guide 1997
 

"I know it upsets some people, but what can you do? I just hope they're giving me a good body." - TV Guide 1997 referring to the fake nudes of her on the internet
 

"I was going to school, acting, doing Tae Kwon Do and skating. I would get up in the morning, go to the ice rink, then go to school, then go to auditions, then go to Tae Kwon Do. I was cracking." - Venice 1997
 

"My junior high school was like Buffy's. I was kind of a nerd. I didn't have many friends, and I was an outcast. But I think Buffy is an amazing role model because the one thing that I was able to do at my high school was be an individual. The problem with most high schools is they don't stress individuality. Buffy shows girls it's okay to be different." - Venice 1997
 

"I want the 'Buffy-in-a-coma' episode. I was on daytime for two and a half years and I got two days in a coma. I want a coma episode. Mexico here I come!" - Venice 1997
 

"I didn’t have a computer in North Carolina, so I would talk to my [Buffy] co-stars and they’d say, 'Oh my God, there’s two hundred more Web sites now,' or 'This person downloaded you this many times.'" - Mr Showbiz 1997
 

"When I grew up, I watched television. The role models that I had were Mallory on Family Ties, Blair on The Facts of Life, even Tracy Gold on Growing Pains, always complained because she was a nerd. She wanted to be beautiful and popular." - Mr Showbiz 1997
 

"I know the scene that horrified me the most was me in a bathing suit. That was horrific. That was horrible. That scared me." - Mr Showbiz 1997 referring to the scarriest scene from I Know What You Did Last Summer
 

"It’s the biggest joke going. Like, I put on makeup and it’s all over my face. It’s like I’m a child hand-painting." - Mr Showbiz 1997
 

"You know what aggravates me? There are all these people saying, "What about morality, and what about the lessons you learn in this film?" People forget these are movies. They’re there to entertain us. We don’t have to be hit over the head with lessons. And believe me, there are moral tales in our story. So you know what? If the girls wear short skirts, big deal! People do." - Mr Showbiz 1997
 

"In the beginning, I was like, so ready to go. I’d punch the guy, and it’d be like a right hook to the jaw--boom! And Jim’s like, 'no, you flail your arms.' And it was a little hard at first, just because of my training, and what I’m used to on a day-to-day basis. But that’s part of acting." - Mr Showbiz 1997 referring to the transition from Buffy to I Know What you did Last Summer
 

"When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies." - TV Guide 1998
 

"I've been working Monday through Thursday on Buffy and Friday, Saturday and Sunday on finishing Scream II But, hey, this is the time in my life when I'm supposed to work like a dog. I'll relax when I'm old!" - React 1997
 

"McDonald's turned around and sued not only Burger King and J. Walter Thompson, the ad agency--they also sued me. I was 5. I couldn't even say the word lawyer and a few months later I was telling my friends, 'I can't play. I've got to give a deposition.'" - Chicago Sun Times 1997
 

"I get all my energy from work. I scream. I yell. I come home and I go to sleep." - Chicago Sun Times 1997
 

"Yeah, I don't have much of a life beyond work, but how many other girls get to really release their inner demons for a living?" - Chicago Sun Times 1997
 

"I've definitely been tired; 'Buffy' is a real difficult show to shoot. I never have a day off, sometimes they don't finish shooting until 2 a.m., and I have to be there at 5 some mornings. Basically, I'd work Monday to Thursday on 'Buffy,' then I'd start 'Scream' on Friday, wouldn't finish until Sunday and just basically go straight to 'Buffy,' shower and start work there." - Detroit Free Press 1998
 

"It was completely natural. I just woke up one morning and had blonde hair and black roots. So go figure." - Tonight Show
 

"I laid out my slipdress, a slip to go under it, and my knee high boots. The next morning, I got dressed and hopped in my car with the top down. I took my eyes off the road and glanced down at myself; I'd put my boots on, and my slip, but I'd forgotten to put on my dress!" - YM 1998
 

"I show up for the first read-through, and I'm trying to be as cool as I can. And I get in the elevator with Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette." - YM 1998
 

"I had to choose between going to my junior prom and the Emmys. But I did get to go to the after prom party!" - YM 1998
 

"I just hate doing interviews, so the faster I finish, the better it is for me." - Seventeen 1998
 

"Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you're in a relationship, then this is the one day you're supposed to say 'I love you', and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you're single, you feel miserable." - Seventeen 1998
 

"My biggest complaint is in school when it's Send-the-roses day. Somebody's always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone who hadn't gotten any." - Seventeen 1998
 

"I love being in a cult hit. You feel less pressure, and you won't get typecast, because you're not Rachel from Friends." - Entertainment Weekly 1998
 

"When they have the drunk driving episode, I want to be the kid who's killed. I'm obsessed. I will get killed." - Entertainment Weekly 1998
 

"My favorites are the little girls who write and say Buffy is their hero, that they love Buffy. I liked the Buffy Halloween costume one girl had. Little hiking boots and a shirt." - SFX 1998
 

"I'm always the one that gets killed. And I want to go really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!" - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"So is my end coming now? My God. Oh my God! I'm dying aren't I? Sorry for the little outbreak there. Thank you. Thank you, I'm finished now." - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"Let me tell you how un-Buffy I am. For the first episode, I come in and yell, 'what's the sitch?' I did not know what sitch meant. I still have to ask Joss [Whedon] 'What does this mean?' because I don't speak the lingo. I thnk he makes it up half the time." - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"When I was younger, I used to totally fear that a kidnapper was going to climb up my twelfth-story window - using suction cups like Spider Man - and kidnap me." - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"Alcohol? I'm not twenty-one yet!" - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"Murder is wrong - people know that. We don't say 'do this.' We are entertaining you. Not everything is a public service announcement." - Rolling Stone 1998
 

"There's the 'I'm being chased' scream, the 'Omigod, I'm about to be killed' scream, and the 'I'm five minutes from freedom' scream. I scream my head off." - Sky 1998
 

"I am a soroity girl. I have my floral skirt, my little sweater, and my miniature earrings with the diamonds. I think I am your typical sorority babe." - Sky 1998 talking about her Scream 2 character
 

"I don't think I ever had a chance at being a normal teenager but I actually had a great childhood because I grew up in New York, not Los Angeles. I went to a normal school, I dated, I did all those so called normal things. But adolescence is just the hardest time of anyone's life." - Sky 1998