Eliza Dushku

My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.