Lucy Lawless Quotes

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.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

Some people think that acting's about being somebody else and I don't. I think this is how I would be given the same circumstances. And I do it for my own enjoyment.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

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 married, man.'

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

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 young daughter - has to take second place.

I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today!

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 right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

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.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

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 sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

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.