I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
— Yvonne Strahovski
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.
It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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.
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.
I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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.
I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.
If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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.
We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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.
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.
I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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.'
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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.
I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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.
I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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.
