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" NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic. "
Sarah Shahi
Great
Me
People
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" I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track. "
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" I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell. "
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Boy
Clothing
Makeup
" My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. "
Sarah Shahi
Back
Unfortunately
Show
" When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally. "
Sarah Shahi
Shoes
Me
Clothes
" It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements. "
Sarah Shahi
Control
Fun
Look
" My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out. "
Sarah Shahi
Character
Turn
Truth
" I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque. "
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Side
Mysterious
Dark
" I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids. "
Sarah Shahi
Husband
Parent
Father
" I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' "
Sarah Shahi
Growing Up
Growing
Chicago
" I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast. "
Sarah Shahi
Time
Day
Good
" I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times. "
Sarah Shahi
Immature
Wife
Mother
" You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. "
Sarah Shahi
Football
Mother
Sports
" I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic. "
Sarah Shahi
Always
Athletic
Myself
" I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible. "
Sarah Shahi
Feel
Possible
Acting
" I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, 'Let's not do karate this year. Let's not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.' "
Sarah Shahi
Teeth
Stage
Said
" The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow. "
Sarah Shahi
Challenge
Surround Yourself
Yourself
" I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws. "
Sarah Shahi
Characters
Playing
Flaws
" Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend. "
Sarah Shahi
Play
Women
Girlfriend
" Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work. "
Sarah Shahi
Know
Puzzle
Need
" My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing. "
Sarah Shahi
Good
Mom
Mother
" My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps. "
Sarah Shahi
Feel
Kind
Dance
" My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him. "
Sarah Shahi
Life
Father
Good
" I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute. "
Sarah Shahi
Man
Cute
Nervous
" You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true. "
Sarah Shahi
Think
Attention
Hate
" I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language. "
Sarah Shahi
Good
Feel
Language
" I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin. "
Sarah Shahi
Thinking
Home
Women
" My views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean, I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand. "
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You
Equality
Know
" I love guns. I love shooting guns. "
Sarah Shahi
I Love
Shooting
Guns
" My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me. "
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He
Me
Parents
" I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon. "
Sarah Shahi
Newspaper
Take
Weapon