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" 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. "

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" Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary. "

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

" Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Song

Scared

" There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour? "

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

" 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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Horror

Cinema

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

" '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. "

" 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 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 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 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 feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy. "

" I just love the culture of Melbourne. "

" I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true. "

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Say

Water

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

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Since

Looking

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

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

" I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. "

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Bit

I Am

" 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'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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "