"I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like."
"It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts."
"'Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart."
"If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way."
"The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow."
"I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me."
"I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me."
"We all need to make time for a burger once in a while."
"I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it."
"I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row."
"I'm a bit of a workaholic."
"Any kind of advice that I've been given to cut out carbs forever, don't do it. It just doesn't work. You do okay for a while and then you just overcarb."
"I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show."
"I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!"
"Well, I love TV, and I love a good script."
"A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene."
"Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place."
"I went to a tiny little high school... I'd make my foray into Calgary if I wanted to see a movie or do something crazy."
"I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian."
"Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same."
"Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended."
"I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes."
"There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death."
"I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life."
"You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity."
