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" 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. "

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" TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Art

Violence

Reflection

" I don't eat sugar. I eat fruit. "

" 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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Love

Kids

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

" We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.' "

" If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it. "

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

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Watching

Filming

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

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

" I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.' "

Yvonne Strahovski

Always

Dance

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Shot

Scenes

" 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. "

" I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate. "

" 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.' "

Yvonne Strahovski

Sunset

Think

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

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Putting

Chemicals

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

" 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 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 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 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 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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

School

Hands

" I love singing. I love singing at home. "

" '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. "

" A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there. "

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

" 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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Things

Arts