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 am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I’m on Broadway. It’s always something I’ve wanted to be a part of, and I can’t believe that this is the experience I’m having.

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 still don’t find myself a very confident person about my looks or my body.

Staying at home with your kids is probably one of the hardest jobs, emotionally, physically and mentally.

Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

I’ve read a lot of scripts and I’m really luck to be able to play a woman who’s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I’m really lucky.

I remember taking a self-defence class when I was 16, and of course I don’t remember any of it.

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.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

I know my body’s limits. I’ve never enjoyed Spin classes, where they’re like, ‘Push it further!’ I’m like, ‘No. If I pull something, I can’t work tomorrow.’ That’s why I gave up Bikram yoga.

I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She’s got such history, and she‘s, like, the first female superhero.

There’s something that feels more organic about watching a stunt that’s done by you. There’s also a feeling of accomplishment doing it yourself.

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.’

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations – those who fight and those who freeze. I’m a freezer, and that’s just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I’ve had thrown for me.

‘The Avengers‘ made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

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!

The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.

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.

When I got the script for ‘Winter Soldier,’ I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.

I try to take an exercise class twice a week.

Going to the Comic Cons and meeting people – that’s a fun energy to be around.

I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.

I had a daily 30 minute pushup routine. Then I boxed 3 times a week for about an hour. And then, I had the trainer come to my house an average of 1 to 2 times a week.

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.

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day.

I like to challenge myself and grow as an actress.

I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I’m able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.

I got really into SoulCycle for a bit.

Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.

I love working out.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I’ve always wanted to be a rock star.

I’m just looking for really good projects with varying characters – ones I haven‘t done before – so I can continue to grow as an actress.

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.

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.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

I saw ‘Starbuck’ before I ever knew I would be involved in ‘Delivery Man,’ but I liked it, and then a couple of months went by, and I really knew I wanted to audition for it when it became available.

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!

Who isn’t a fan of Tom Cruise? He has been in so many amazing movies.

I was really into ‘Cocktail‘ when I was younger – probably the most – followed by ‘Top Gun.’

I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn’t eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

I’m always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there’s more opportunity.

There’s something cool about traveling when you’re young. There’s a sense of camaraderie. You learn more about yourself.

I’ve really been enjoying The Bar Method because I’m not a sweaty mess when we get to my favorite part of class – the end.

I love having my husband at home. Especially when I have to leave the country so he can take care of our children.

I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.

I think to be a good model, you have to enjoy having your picture taken, and I never really did.

The experience of pregnancy – it depends on your situation, but it can be quite isolating.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.

I don’t think I’ll ever feel like I’m cancer-free.

I like to challenge myself. Whether that’s on television or film or on stage, that’s what I’m going to go for.

Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.

Models need to be unionized.

I like to think that I’m extremely method with my tactics on getting work.

People always let me know when their team beats the Canucks.

What’s more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

I’d love to shoot something in Toronto; I’d love to bring something to Canada. I’m dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I’m from.

Self-defence helps with your confidence, and if you ever find yourself in that type of situation, you are more physically capable.

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 usual day: a green smoothie for breakfast – if I want to get fancy, it’s eggs on arugula – fruit for a snack, a salad with protein for lunch, and fish and quinoa for dinner.

I’m not going to be very picky. If something comes to me and I want to do it, I’ll do it.

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama – anything with Colin Firth.

There’s sacrifice involved. Either you’re going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you’re going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you’re sacrificing your career.

I’ve worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.

‘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.

Before I did ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ I was not considered a comedic actress.

I played football for 12 years, but I would always trick myself into exercise, like by taking a dance class.

I really like the character of Jack Reacher – I thought he was interesting.

‘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 seek out things that terrify me, like an improv class. I’m terrified of sharks, but I scuba dive. I’m not good at auditioning, but I force myself to do it all the time. I’ve never met anybody who is fearless, but the more you push against your own boundaries, the easier it becomes to push.

I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven’t had it from a box in a long time, but I’ll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don’t know, I’m crazy like that.

I didn’t really discover ‘Risky Business‘ until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

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.

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.

Whats more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit – people are getting more self-involved.