Poppy Montgomery

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

I was a redhead when I first came to America.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.

I always try to make things fun.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.