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" I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States. "
Yvonne Strahovski
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" 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. "
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" I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies. "
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" I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl. "
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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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" TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately. "
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" Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there. "
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" 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. "
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" I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.' "
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" A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there. "
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" I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate. "
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" I love singing. I love singing at home. "
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" 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! "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. "
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" '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. "
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" It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be! "
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" I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics. "
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" There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up. "
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