Quotes By Elisha Cuthbert

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

I'm into eating salads and fish. I've always been a big fish eater. I like fruit. I have friends that you have to force-feed them the good stuff. I'm lucky I actually like it. Brussel sprouts and all that.

I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.

I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.