"It's ridiculous how much attention the media pay to sillicone-inflated women parading generous curves on incredibly skinny bodies," says Lucy, whoose favorite foods are lamb shanks and frozen yoghurt. She believes women like that aren't real - "They're terrible male fantasies. I don't think I'm a typical woman either, but at least I have some muscle. The point is that girls who look up to Xena can see that they dont have to correspond to the preposterous kind of fashion-magazine images that make
girls anorexic. "I've got to say anorexia sort of bores me. You think you're going to get respect and attention but its quite the opposite. People are turned off, people dance around you. Its bad for your health and its unhygienic. I lose patience with it. "To any girls out there who are thinking of it, or are just getting into it, just quit your bloody nonsense! Enough already! It's a total waste of time. I speak from a little bit of experience. I used to quite like bulimia. I used to think that was fun.". (Lucy Lawless - People Magazine 1997)
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot," (Lucy Lawless - Starlog - Savage Sword of Xena)
Tarantino: Xena's the show I always wish Wonder Woman was. I watch Xena 20 years from now, I'm gonna go -- oh, man, that's so lame, the action sucks? No, no, no, no. Xena's the show I always wished Charlie's Angels was, Wonder Woman was. It's like, you know, Xena has no apologies -- it's a really cool show. It's got cool characters. Lucy Lawless is terrific in it, and I love that girl who plays Callisto in the show. And then, the action in it is a lot of fun. The scripts are really good. There's some really cool storytelling going on. The whole lineage of the story -- the backstory of Xena's character -- is quite magnificent. And I would use the word "magnificent." There's a lot there to be had. The fact that she was an Atilla the Hun kind of killer and pillager. Years passed, Xena turns over this new leaf, but she is haunted, like Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven -- she was haunted by her evil deeds. And I mean, they were evil, they were truly evil. She wasn't, like, kind of bad. She was an evil, murderous person. Untold numbers of dead during her reign, torture, whole races and tribes that don't exist anymore because of Xena. Now she's fighting for redemption, but she knows she doesn't deserve redemption and she will never get redemption. The only thing she can do is just do good now, on a day to day basis. But she doesn't deserve mercy. She's paying a debt she can never pay and she'll always be paying 10 cents on the dollar.
Interviewer: And that's rare for a female character.
Tarantino: That's rare for a male character. That's just good shit, that's just good indeed. And then Callisto comes back, who is a mirror image of Xena, doing the same murdering and killing with evil intentions -- but she exists only because Xena did it. It's her revenge for Xena, the fact that she created her in her hate. Callisto has every right to kill Xena, and Xena has every right in her own heart to die under Callisto's blade. But Callisto doesn't have the right to kill the innocent people she's killing. Therein lies -- I mean, that's a great conflict. That is just fantastic. (Quentin Tarantino - 'Double Dare' 2004 Documentary)
Karen Essex: stereo3d asks: Do you think Lucy Lawless of TV's Xena patterns her look after you?
Bettie Page: She is one of my favorites. To be as big as she is, when she can do flips, she is something. No other woman can do what she does. I have heard she patterned her look after me. But she doesn't have long hair like I have. I like that show. (Bettie Page - Bettieville Chat, 1998)
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