85+ Julie Benz Quotes On Education, Culture And World

Julie Benz is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and as Rita Bennett on Dexter. She has also appeared in films such as Jawbreaker, Rambo, and Saw V. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Julie Benz on education, leadership, life.

Top 10 Julie Benz Quotes

1. The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
2. I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
3. I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.
4. If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.
5. There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.
6. And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
7. Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
8. I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
9. It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
10. Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

Julie Benz Short Quotes

• I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
• To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
• I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.
• I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.
• I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.
• The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.
• [Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] pushed me out of my comfort zone [in Buffy The Vampire Slayer ].
• The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.
• During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
• It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.

Julie Benz Quotes About Life

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something. — Julie Benz

Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent. — Julie Benz

It's a moment that I will be asked about for the rest of my life as an actor, and I carry that moment with pride, that Rita [in Dexter] had such an impact and that it was such a gut-wrenching moment for audience members. — Julie Benz

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person. — Julie Benz

Julie Benz Quotes About Love

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do. — Julie Benz

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience. — Julie Benz

Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her. — Julie Benz

I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather. — Julie Benz

I love the fans of genre. Genre fans are the best fans. They're loyal, they're dedicated, and they're passionate about the projects. They get it on a cerebral level. Being a part of that culture and that world... It's very gratifying and very fulfilling. — Julie Benz

It was a really wonderful experience [at Hi Honey, I'm Home show]. I loved Nick At Nite at the time, and I was obsessed with watching it, so just to meet some of the more experienced stars of the older shows was a real treat and a thrill for me. — Julie Benz

I love doing action films that do challenge me physically. I feel it's my job to keep my stamina up and be as physically fit as possible, so that I can just jump in and do it. It takes its toll sometimes and it's hard work, but I love that. — Julie Benz

I loved playing Darla. — Julie Benz

I love being challenged physically, as an actress. — Julie Benz

I loved everything about that movie [Jawbreaker]. The fashion, the friendship amongst all of us girls... it was great. We had a blast filming it, and it was really wonderful. It was a very special time. — Julie Benz

Julie Benz Quotes About Work

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success. — Julie Benz

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy. — Julie Benz

I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in, and I worked so hard on Deb, because I just wanted to swear. I wanted to say all those nasty words. That was it: "I want to swear on television!". — Julie Benz

[Payne] was a really great experience, and both John [ Larroquette] and JoBeth [Williams] over the years, it's been great reconnecting with them and working with them on other projects as well. — Julie Benz

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors. — Julie Benz

I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with. — Julie Benz

No one ever asks me about Breeze O'Rourke! I did the pilot for[Payne] right after Jawbreaker, or at least right around the same time, and it was an Americanized version of Fawlty Towers. That was the first time I worked with John Larroquette, and it was definitely not the last time. — Julie Benz

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season. — Julie Benz

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses. — Julie Benz

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting. — Julie Benz

Julie Benz Quotes About Started

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games. — Julie Benz

I got cast in [Punisher: War Zone] and showed up in Montreal two days before the film started, and they said, "We need you to do a New York accent." And I was, like, "What?! Why didn't you tell me this, oh, I don't know, two weeks ago, when you cast me?". — Julie Benz

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice. — Julie Benz

Julie Benz Famous Quotes And Sayings

I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter]. — Julie Benz

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter. — Julie Benz

I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room. — Julie Benz

I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was fun, because every actor on that movie had to do an accent, so we were all talking the whole time in our accents. — Julie Benz

That movie [Jawbreaker] was so much fun to shoot. We were all in our mid-20s at the time, playing high school students. Which was the point. It was the point of the film to hire older actors to play high school students. But we had a blast. — Julie Benz

I read the script [Havenhurst] and I went to bed, but I woke up because somebody had knocked on my door. Or at least it seemed like somebody knocked on my door at, like, 4 in the morning. — Julie Benz

It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And I did a lot of comedies very early on, but then my career took kind of a left turn with Joss Whedon, and I discovered that doing genre work is actually more interesting as an actor, because the given circumstances are more extreme. And it really is creatively more challenging. — Julie Benz

I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen. — Julie Benz

I remember they did all the makeup tests on me for Darla... Sorry, for "the vampire." I was the test monkey for the vampire look, so I went through numerous variations of the prosthetics and camera tests before I actually got the job. — Julie Benz

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong. — Julie Benz

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job. — Julie Benz

Having just read the script [Havenhurst] and then add having seen a ghost, I went to Andrew [Erin], and I was, like, "Okay, I have to do this movie. I just have to! I don't know why, but I just have to do it." And I ended up getting the role. — Julie Benz

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting. I learned so much with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. They encouraged us to make creative choices with our characters. — Julie Benz

I was 18 years old when I did the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], so I was a freshman at NYU, and it was one of my first professional auditions in New York City. And I somehow booked the job. I have no idea how. — Julie Benz

I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in the mirror and, I forget exactly what it was, but he looked in the mirror and realized that when he smiled, it looked creepy. — Julie Benz

So it's nice to know that Rita had that impact, and it was nice to end a character on a high note like that. But, again, in the moment... I always say, nobody was more devastated than me [from Rita's death in Dexter]! — Julie Benz

As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting. — Julie Benz

That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me. — Julie Benz

[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel. — Julie Benz

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true. — Julie Benz

We shot [Hi Honey, I'm Home] on location in Orlando, Florida, so I was there by myself. And I remember I was late one day, and Gale Gordon pulled me aside, and he said, "Honey, when it says you have to be here at 10 a.m., you need to be here at 9:30." And ever since, I've always been a half-hour early to my call time! — Julie Benz

[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that. — Julie Benz

When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled. — Julie Benz

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] wasn't Darla in the beginning, by the way. Darla was just Vampire Girl #1. But I just started adding a little bit of glee and joy into everything she did and just relied on the fact that the prosthetic does the work. And then I didn't have to be scary. The prosthetic was scary enough. I just had to smile and show off Darla's really great dental work. — Julie Benz

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success. — Julie Benz

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me. — Julie Benz

I had the prosthetics on, and I went to my trailer, I looked in the mirror, and I smiled. And I was, like, "This is the character - everything she does is with a smile and a bit of glee and joy." And that's how I created Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer]. Prior to that, I was, like, "I have no idea how to play this 400-year-old vampire from hell!". — Julie Benz

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character. — Julie Benz

When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member. — Julie Benz

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody. — Julie Benz

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture. — Julie Benz

I was sad when the show [Defiance] got canceled. It was heartbreaking for all of us involved. It was definitely a project that everyone involved poured their heart and soul into. But we had three good years, which is, you know, three more years than most shows get. — Julie Benz

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time! — Julie Benz

I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he casts me as a 400-year-old vampire from hell. It was, like, "What?!" — Julie Benz

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!". — Julie Benz

It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years. — Julie Benz

I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site meeting with Andrew [Erin]. It was so bizarre. I was staying in a hotel at the time, and the night before the meeting with Andrew, I learned there was a ghost in the hotel. — Julie Benz

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ]. — Julie Benz

Life Lessons by Julie Benz

1. Julie Benz has taught us that hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has worked hard to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry and has been rewarded with a successful career.
2. Julie Benz has also demonstrated that it is possible to overcome adversity and achieve your goals. Despite facing numerous challenges, she has persevered and achieved her dreams.
3. Finally, Julie Benz has shown us that it is possible to be both successful and kind. She has used her platform to advocate for causes she believes in and has been a positive role model for many.