I won't say no to projects I believe in if there's a good story there.
— Cobie Smulders
We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.
I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.
I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!
I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.
The experience of pregnancy - it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.
'The Avengers' happened because I'm friends with Joss Whedon, and he sort of brought me into the mix when they were looking for Maria Hill.
I actually kind of prefer working with an ensemble. It's just cool to be surrounded by such great people.
I'm very simplistic. I like jewelry that is small, that is a statement piece but with a delicate statement.
I got really into SoulCycle for a bit.
I wish that we, as women, spent as much time on the well-being of our insides as we do with our looks on the outside.
I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.
Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.
I think to be a good model, you have to enjoy having your picture taken, and I never really did.
The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.
I remember taking a self-defence class when I was 16, and of course I don't remember any of it.
We have very strict rules about TV and film in my house.
It's just extremely difficult to shoot with five dogs. They're great, and the people who handle them are amazing. But they're animals.
Sometimes I feel like women of the world who are single moms and are working in Walmart are the strongest women out there, and that's what's really exciting to me is being all these different types of women.
I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.
I left 'How I Met Your Mother' and jumped right onto an episode of 'S.H.I.E.L.D.,' the TV show. I wrapped, and the next day I was on set shooting 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
My plan is to stay in New York for as long as I can and do some theater out here and just keep working creatively.
A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.
When you're driving Tom Cruise around, and he's literally a race car driver, and you're supposed to be driving like you really know what you're doing... It's quite intimidating.
I think it's really important to get in early and for women to do mammograms, to do screenings, to do all these things that aren't always necessarily covered by Medicare, by insurances, and to really start working to get those more available for people.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.
Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.
I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.
The best of me now lives on in my two little women, baby girls I was lucky enough to be able to make with my own body.
I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'
When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.
I felt very patriotic playing a New York City cop.
I played football for 12 years, but I would always trick myself into exercise, like by taking a dance class.
'The L-Word' was such a great show because of the amazing writing and characters, but maybe because it was such a new concept, people couldn't pick up on it, but I think it was down to the dynamic characters and how well done it was.
They're inherently good people, every single person that I've ever worked with on an 'Avengers' film. I think they want to do good, and they want people to be happy, and they want to speak what they believe.
The real women who decide to enlist to work their way up in the ranks to become a Major in the United States Army are some freakin' tough broads.
The hardest thing is getting fake hit. You really have to sell it. Somebody comes at you and stops a couple inches from your face. You have to react like it's painful. In my training, those were the days I was more sore, doing gut punches or getting thrown against walls. You're moving your body in a way that's not natural.
I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.
I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.
Going to the Comic Cons and meeting people - that's a fun energy to be around.
I'm a very private person.
I usually wear a lot of really thin gold bands and small studs. Nothing too big.
I love working out.
Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.
I feel like starring in a TV show is such a fun thing.
Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.
I still don't find myself a very confident person about my looks or my body.
The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.
Self-defence helps with your confidence, and if you ever find yourself in that type of situation, you are more physically capable.
For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!
