Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Yvonne Strahovski

We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

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.

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'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

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 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.

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

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 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 grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.

'24' is such an iconic show.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

I love singing. I love singing at home.

Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

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.

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 was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

I don't eat sugar. I eat fruit.

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.

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.

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

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.

I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

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 had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.

In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

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.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.

The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.

I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.

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 just love the culture of Melbourne.

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.

There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.

Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

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 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'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

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 dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.