Quotes from Cobie Smulders

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.

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

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

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

I felt very patriotic playing a New York City cop.

Joss Whedon is the best man on the planet.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.

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

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

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.

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

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!

I actually kind of prefer working with an ensemble. It's just cool to be surrounded by such great people.

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

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.

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

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

I think it's really important to get in early and for women to do mammograms, to do screenings, to do all these things that aren't always necessarily covered by Medicare, by insurances, and to really start working to get those more available for people.

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

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

I've never been the person who's like, 'I've got to get a four-pack of abs!' And I'm not the type to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 45 minutes and then lift weights.

I wish that we, as women, spent as much time on the well-being of our insides as we do with our looks on the outside.

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

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