Strahovski Quotes & Sayings

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes. — Yvonne Strahovski

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude. — Yvonne Strahovski

I loved, loved, loved the fight that I got to do with Matthew Bomer, who plays Bryce, when we did the fight scene that was back to back in the Buy More. — Yvonne Strahovski

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves. — Frank Pittman

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town. — Yvonne Strahovski

TCA pretends to be about raising money for charity. That's true, but only so far. If I had not taken time off from the Penn & Teller show to do The Celebrity Apprentice - if Teller and I had just done our show, gotten usual pay - I could have donated four times the amount of money that Trump had pledged to give my charity if I won the whole damn shooting match. Opportunity Village, "my" charity that helps intellectually disabled adults to enter society, got a lot of attention because I was on The Celebrity Apprentice, and that does count for something. And when I was "fired," my real bosses at Caesars, who own the Rio and the Penn & Teller Theater, said, "Oh, you wanted a quarter million for Opportunity Village? We don't have to do some jive TV show; we'll just write a check." They wrote the full winning amount to Opportunity Village and everyone was happy. — Penn Jillette

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

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

Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw. — Yvonne Strahovski

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

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

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

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.' — Yvonne Strahovski

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier. — Yvonne Strahovski

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. — Yvonne Strahovski

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

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

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing. — Yvonne Strahovski

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far. — Yvonne Strahovski

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage. — Lana Del Rey

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts. — Robin Hobb

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. — Yvonne Strahovski

A cat may look at a king, but he might also lose a bit of fur for it. — Margaret Miles