I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
Yvonne Strahovski
I just love the culture of Melbourne.
I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
I landed the female lead role on 'Chuck' within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.
I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.
I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
I don't eat sugar. I eat fruit.
I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.
I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
'24' is such an iconic show.
I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'
I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.
I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
