Top 44 Yvonne Strahovski Quotes

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.

It’s nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it’s always about the males.

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

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who’s always challenging herself. That’s something I can relate to.

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.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in ‘The Wiz.’

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.

I just love the culture of Melbourne.

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.

I dreamed big. So it’s so great to be living my own dream. I’m working in an industry that I want to work in, and I’m doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.

’24’ is such an iconic show.

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it’s definitely nice to get back there.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

‘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.

I don’t eat sugar. I eat fruit.

I was a goody two shoes – a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

Funnily enough, ‘Chuck’ prepared me for ’24.’

I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it’s true.

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.’

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.’

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.

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.

There’s always chatter about a ‘Chuck’ movie. So nobody’s opposed to it. It’s just a matter of getting everything lined up.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I’ve never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I’ve ever come to that inner something.

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

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.

I’m not a singer. In ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during ‘Put on a Happy Face.’

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

It’s often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

I landed the female lead role on ‘Chuck’ within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.

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 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.

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.

Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

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

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

I love singing. I love singing at home.

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 enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is – or at least generated from – because you fly off and do movies. It’s sort of a great way to see the world.

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.