Quotes from Yvonne Strahovski

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

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

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 don't eat sugar. I eat fruit.

I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.

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.

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 was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

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

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

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

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

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

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.'

In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'

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 try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

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

Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

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

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've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

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.