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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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Feel

People

" I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.' "

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

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

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Shot

Scenes

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

" 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

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

" I just love the culture of Melbourne. "

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

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

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Since

Looking

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Watching

Filming

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

" 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. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Three

Lead

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

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

" It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together. "

" 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. "

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Say

Water

" We live in a society where nothing is sacred. "

" 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 guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. "

Yvonne Strahovski

Bit

I Am

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

" I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to. "

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

Yvonne Strahovski

Putting

Chemicals

" 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'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.' "