Quotes from Cobie Smulders

The hardest thing is getting fake hit. You really have to sell it. Somebody comes at you and stops a couple inches from your face. You have to react like it's painful. In my training, those were the days I was more sore, doing gut punches or getting thrown against walls. You're moving your body in a way that's not natural.

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

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

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

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

I try to take an exercise class twice a week.

'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.

Models need to be unionized.

I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

We're lucky to live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and I don't know what the other Avengers are up to, personally, but I know they're all really good people.

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.

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

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'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.

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.

I'm very simplistic. I like jewelry that is small, that is a statement piece but with a delicate statement.

A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.

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

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 feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

We have very strict rules about TV and film in my house.

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.