Quotes from Gal Gadot

I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.

I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.

The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.

For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn't be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn't want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.

All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.