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

Yvonne Strahovski

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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 don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds. "

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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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" Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary. "

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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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" If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it. "

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

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

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

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" I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine. "

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" 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.' "

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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 think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred. "

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

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" I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl. "

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