Julie Benz quotes:

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

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.

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

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

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

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

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

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

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

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.

To us marriage is first, everything else is second.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

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

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

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

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

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

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.

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.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

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

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

I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

I loved playing Darla.

It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

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.

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.

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.