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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. "
Yvonne Strahovski
Thought
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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 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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" 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. "
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" I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude. "
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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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" 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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" I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky. "
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Coconut
" 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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" 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. "
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End
Day
Art
" I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates. "
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Putting
Like
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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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Change
Television
Nice
" I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. "
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Forest
Life
Drama
" It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day. "
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" I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes. "
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" I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by. "
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Grow
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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'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've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something. "
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" I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.' "
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Lucky
" Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast. "
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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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" A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?' "
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Like
Scenes
" If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it. "
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Then
Dance
High
" We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.' "
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Fact
" Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of. "
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Growing
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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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