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

Yvonne Strahovski

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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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've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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 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. "

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

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" I just love the culture of Melbourne. "

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

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" 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. "

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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 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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