Missy Peregrym

“You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.”

“There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.”

“I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.”

“I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.”

“I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.”

“In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.”

“I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.”

“IMDb is kind of weird, because people can put things on there, but then I can't change it.”

“The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.”

“I think guns are terrible.”

“I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.”

“I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.”

“I just don't want to be famous. I feel like there's a lot of sacrifice in that I'm not really willing to make.”

“I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.”

“When I first got to L.A., I was shocked at how business was done, and how people... it's like everything I was told not to fall for, I was surrounded by. And it was very difficult for me, because I just didn't like the industry at all.”

“I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.”

“I'm hoping that maybe I can be part of a disaster relief effort, something that's real life. That's kind of what I do anytime I stop working: 'OK, what's something that you've really wanted to do?'”

“The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.”

“I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.”

“At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.”