Birth name: Sarah Michelle Gellar
Gender: Female
Spouse: Freddie Prinze Jr. (1 September 2002 - present)
Profession: Actress
Nickname: Sassy
Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m)
Pets: Maltese terrier named Thor; Akita named Tyson.
(about her father) - "Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father."
[On Being A Teen Idol] "This is what I've waited for my whole life."
(High school) "My biggest complaint is school when it's Send-the-roses day, somebody's always left out. I always got roses, but I would give them to someone who hadn't gotten any."
(Horror Movies) "I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled! "[on Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon]: "They're unbelievable. They're an inspiration to young love."
[on job pressures] "There's so much pressure on all of us right now. On Katie [Holmes], on James [Van Der Beek], and myself, to do these movies, and do as much as you can because there is the slight feeling that one day your phone will stop ringing. It's not about the craft, per se. It's so easy to fall for it all because people remind you constantly that as fast as it comes, it can go. And I think there is this sort of paranoia, this need to keep working. And I know that I felt it, and for the first three years of the show, I never had more than a week off, except for Christmas. That was it."
(On being 'skinny') "How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals."
[on the Internet] "I got a computer and I'm learning how to use it. I collect antique books, so I used it to get my copy of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' and I use it for travel, to look up customs. I went to Fiji, and I looked up all this stuff before I went, like 'Don't wear a hat in someone's house because it's rude, and don't wear shoes.' You've got to think there's something better I can do with my time than log on to the Internet and say, 'Ooo, let's find out about me!' I think that would frighten me a little bit."
"It makes me think of women who don't shave their legs."
- on what the word "feminist" means[On her kissing scene with Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions (1999)]: "It was a great kiss. It even had a saliva trail."
"One of the greatest gifts my job has given me is that my mother, who gave up her entire life for me, doesn't have to work any more. I'm now in a position to repay her for her devotion."
"I am militant about drugs. You want to do 'em? You're out of my life."
[on posing nude] "Right now I can't picture posing, but I don't believe in saying never... There might be a time when I got pregnant and felt really beautiful and wanted to have a nude picture."
"I would go to college to be a journalist. I always wanted to write for Time or Newsweek."
(On what she would do if she wasn't acting.)"You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try."
"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"[on why she was happy to get married:] "I'm so grateful I don't have to go looking for a man on a Saturday night. I was always terrible at chatting up men."
[December 10, 2003][about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997):] "To me, the scariest elements of horror films are the things that could really happen. And what is more scary than high school? ... What I like about the show is that it reminds you it's O.K. to be different. What people think isn't necessarily true. If people walk away with half of that, we've done our job."
[New York Times, April 27, 1997][on playing Kendall Hart on "All My Children" (1970):] "I seduced my stepfather, and when he wouldn't sleep with me, I slept with the stable boy, cried rape, and my mother stabbed him with a letter opener. Then I went to jail for perjury, burned my parents' divorce papers, and locked up my little sister. I think that was all in the first week."
[New York Times, April 27, 1997][on attending the Professional Children's High School in Manhattan:] "Everybody there had a talent, and everyone was respected. If somebody didn't like you--they didn't talk to you! They didn't make fun of you, punish you. You could, you know, mess around with how you dress. You really had that chance to find yourself, and I thank God for that school. I went to that school feeling amazingly untalented. That school was my lifeline. Let me tell you something--talent night at our school? There was nothing like it."
Salary Scooby-Doo (2002) $4,000,000 - 6,000,000 Cruel Intentions (1999) $500,000 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) $350,000 per episode (7th Season)
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