These memorable offscreen quotations by Tricia have been compiled from a number of publications and interviews.

To Urban TV male host:
“A little birdie told me that you get a little tongue-tied around me. So I thought that you could put this up on your wall so that next time you have an interview, you can practice talking to me.” [reveals Playboy cover]
– Urban TV, December 6 2007

On whether her Cylon character is good or bad:
“I’m a little bit of both. No, I’m bad if you’re human.”
– TV Guide Watch This, 2007

On her discovery:
“I would definitely not have entered the modeling world if I hadn’t been ‘discovered’, as they say.”
– TV Guide Watch This, 2007

On her childhood in Alberta:
“I think I put my first tractor in the ditch. I think everybody’s put a tractor in the ditch. Who hasn’t put a tractor in the ditch, right? That was me at ten years old.”
– Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

On her neighbors’ potential reaction to her Playboy cover:
“Well, you know, we’re way out in the boondocks, so the neighbors are quite a ways away and you can see ‘em coming.”
– Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

On her Playboy cover:
“Of course I called my parents and all my sisters and asked for permission, even at 32 years old.”
– Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

On her discovery:
“I wouldn’t even want to guess the probability [of being discovered], actually. I would’ve never got into [modeling] on my own.”
- Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

On what she would’ve done had she not entered the modeling industry:
“I would’ve probably gone into Psychiatry. You know, when you’re a little farm girl, you don’t really think you look like the cover of a magazine. You forget that there’s airbrushing, hair and make-up and all that.”
– Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

Pointing at her butt crack on her Playboy cover:
“That’s my plumber’s crack!”
– Late Show with David Letterman, January 19 2007

On whether she uses her looks for good or evil in real life:
“Only for evil.”
- TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On meeting eager fans at conventions:
“You know, I’m pretty good at martial arts. I can pull out the Number Six moves and chop ‘em down if need be.”
– TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On her Playboy cover:
“It wasn’t something I’ve always wanted to do. It was something that I’d been thinking about for a while and really waiting until Battlestar had kinda got going. I looked at a lot of people who had done it – like Charlize Theron and the list goes on and on – and realized it’s something that was really quite prestigious to do. You know, I take my clothes off half the time in Battlestar, anyway. Why not?”
– TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On working with photographer Sante D’Orazio on Playboy:
“It was a really small shoot. We were in Acapulco and we really didn’t make it out of – this is going to sound bad – his room or the suite next door.”
– TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On her Playboy photoshoot:
“It was a great experience. I was looking forward to the pictures coming out. You’re worried in the beginning and you’re a little nervous, but after the shoot experience and how fun it was I was really looking forward to the photos.”
– TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On whether she’d be willing to hook up with TV Guide host:
[whispers] “In your dreams.”
– TV Guide Channel, February 15 2007

On the 2007 WGA writers’ strike:
“Of course you want to get out there with them and support them. It is a very complicated situation, but the way it’s been so far at least that I’ve seen it is, they’re not really stopping people from going on and it’s more kind of on a corner beside.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On the transition from playing Number Six on Battlestar Galactica to a new role:
“For me, it’s exciting because Battlestar was one of the first things I got. I had transitioned from modeling into acting, and the first year I was out there I got Battlestar, so I was incredibly lucky in one respect, but in the other respect I’m like, chomping at the bit, ready to get out there and prove that I can do other things.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On the similarities between Battlestar Galactica’s Number Six and Walk All Over Me’s Celene:
“Jumping into the dominatrix role, there was some sort of parallels between Number Six, who has been quite manipulative of Gaius Baltar, the scientist, so it was quite easy for me to step into the boots and be commanding and domineering over someone. But the movie’s not really about just being a dominatrix.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On her early modeling experiences and her confidence as a model:
“You know, my first story walking on the runway was – you know, I was a shy, little farm girl. That’s not what I thought I was gonna do. I was, as they say, ‘discovered’, landed in Paris, doing Chanel, and the right-hand man of Karl Lagerfeld was so angry with me after the show, because I walked with my right arm stuck to my leg. Well, not stuck there, but it didn’t sway like the other one swayed. All the other girls on the show were known models and they all had drivers and everything, and I was schlepping on the subway. And so I had my portfolio with me, which was really heavy, so my right arm never moved when I walked. So that translated to the runway. And I watched myself and I went, ‘Oh my gosh! I walk like this!’ [mimics stiff walk] It was a precursor to being a robot!”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On her transition from modeling to acting:
“You step into another realm. To be a good model there is an element of acting involved, ‘coz you can have the most beautiful woman and she just can’t bring anything in front of the camera. So you have to be comfortable in front of the camera. One day you’re modeling business suits and one day you’re ‘heroine chic’ and whatever. But to translate that to a character, and the thoughts and emotions, and to be verbal, and, you know, one of the biggest things is getting over messing up. On a modeling set there’s ten people, on a film set there’s like, 50, 100, 200 people and you’re kind of like, you stumbling in your words; you’re just a human being. You trip coming up onto the stage, or you fumble a line, and now you just laugh about it, like, ‘that’s gonna make the blooper reel!’”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On being afraid of messing up a take:
“[If you're afraid of messing up] then you’re not in the scene. If you find yourself going, ‘Oh, I’m messing up,’ then you’re not there. [raises fingers to temples] Then you need to do more preparation prior to the scene.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On preparing herself for a scene:
“A lot of people laugh at me now on sets, because I jump like a bunny rabbit before scenes, because I’m the kind of a person that has a lower energy level in general. I’m thinking, if I’m supposed to come into a scene in which I’m running to the door and I’ve got something exciting to tell people, I can’t just – Action! ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!’ – like this. I have to be jumping up and down to get the energy going. So I jump around like a bunny rabbit and make an idiot of myself, but you have to learn to just let that write off and not care about it.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On her Playboy cover:
“They approached me right after Battlestar came out, and I said ‘No’ to it eventually because I thought, you know, I want people to know me as an actress first and that I have some chops – certainly not Meryl Streep – but that I have some chops. So it took a little while for the critical acclaim to come; once Battlestar won a Peabody Award and up here [in Canada] I won a Leo Award for Best Actor, then they re-approached me and I thought, you know, ‘Now maybe the time is right. I’m young enough yet so I think I can do the job.’ And I had creative control. Coming from a modeling background I look at some nude photography as art.”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On her Playboy cover:
“This actually made a difference in my decision. There was some fake naked picture of me on the internet that was going around, and I’d go to a science fiction convention, and there’s someone trying to get me to sign this picture that’s not me, and I’m kinda going, ‘I might as well put a nice naked picture out there so that these fake naked pictures go by the wayside!’”
– The Hour, December 6 2007

On her favorite wine and cheese:
“Not good for the figure, mind you, but a little extra time in the gym and you’ll be alright. There’s nothing like coming home from the set and indulging a little bit.”
– Steven & Chris Show, February 4 2008

On a pair of pink, high heels:
“Almost makes you want to kiss it. Almost. Almost! Aah!”
– Steven & Chris Show, February 4 2008

On her favorite aspect of Number Six of Battlestar Galactica:
“I think what I like the most about Six is her diversity in a way. I know Six gets noticed a lot for her sensuality and things like that, but what attracted me to Six in the first place in the script in the miniseries was her intelligence, her strength and her vulnerability, and everything all mixed into one which I find is indicative of what women are and what women can be. It was interesting to me to have a robot character which embodied so many of these things that many women try to hide.”
– Battlestar Galactica convention, 2005

On the difficulties of portraying Number Six on Battlestar Galactica:
“Technically, to film those scenes is really hard, because it takes a while for the other actors to get used to not being able to look at your or just look through you or that dead space of time. Technically, it’s hard as an actor because you’re in a scene but you’re not in a scene? Like, often you’re hiding behind the cameraman or you’re stepping over the wires and ducking under the table; you’re hiding somewhere and waiting for that opportune moment to slide into view.”
– Square Off, May 12 2006

On researching for and portraying Gina on Battlestar Galactica:
“Because I’m fairly new at [acting], I’m kind of like a sponge. I watch everybody else, and really research quite a bit, in particular for Gina, that clone that was quite beaten and tortured, so to speak; a lot of research on post-traumatic stress syndrome and also watching prisoner movies that people would tell me about. But it’s a fun departure for me, from having the Number Six character that’s usually the seductress to then go and be beaten on the floor and have a very vulnerable character.”
– Square Off, May 12 2006

On how her modeling career affects the roles she is offered:
“I certainly wouldn’t go, ‘Oh, I wish I hadn’t modeled,’ but I definitely want people to say, ‘Okay, I think we can see her in a role that isn’t glamorous.’”
– Square Off, May 12 2006

On her early guest appearance on C.S.I.:
“People thought it would bother me, coming from a modeling world, to play that [kind of a role]. [But] I’ve seen anorexia, I’ve seen bulimia…”
– Square Off, May 12 2006

On her fake nipples in a remake of an iconic Farrah Fawcett photo:
“Well, it varied throughout the show, but that there is prosthetics. We started out with a bigger pair, and then we had a smaller pair, we had the n-word tryouts. When I couldn’t wear [the prosthetics] at all, I had to make them that way myself.”
– Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, April 10 2004

On her childhood on the family farm in Alberta:
“We were farmers, so we had farm work. We had to kill chickens. I didn’t have to kill a chicken, but I had to clean a chicken. Chopping it up and pulling the guts out.”
– Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, April 10 2004

On growing up without television:
“We had no television. I would go over to my grandma’s to watch hockey games, you know, she lives across the yard, but other than that we didn’t get a TV until we started dating, my oldest sisters and I.”
– Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, April 10 2004

On entering the modeling industry and its demands:
“I was tall and – I thought I was skinny, but apparently I wasn’t skinny enough. I was a twig growing up and I always had this self-confidence issue because I was so skinny, and then I’d just started to put on some shape when I met him [model scout Kelly Streit].”
– Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, April 10 2004

On never planning on entering the movie industry:
“I thought that you had to be kind of ‘crazy’ and outrageous and outgoing to be an actor.”
– Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, April 10 2004

On looking straight into the camera for her video game role:
“In film and television you almost never look at the camera, you just never break that line.”
– Game Head, 2007

On how her modeling career affects how she is perceived:
“It’s one thing going into a movie audition with acting experience, but going into a TV or film audition with nothing but a modeling background is tough because they assume all you can do is walk in a bikini and maybe chew gum at the same time.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008

On acting and taking on the role of Battletstar Galactica’s Number Six with little prior acting experience:
“It was a challenge – everything’s still a challenge – as it should be. If it’s not a challenge, people take it for granted.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008

On herself:
“I’m a very driven person. That’s probably got a lot to do with my upbringing in Canada. I’m hard working and I have a strong base. I expect the best of people and I expect to give people my best. That’s certainly been with me throughout my whole life.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008

On herself and early acting career days:
“I enjoy a challenge and I certainly want to be given opportunities to grow and learn. If some doors didn’t open in the beginning, it was disheartening, but I certainly didn’t expect to change careers and be an overnight success story.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008

On her Battlestar Galactica role:
“Not all my experiences have been positive, but Battlestar, which has been my predominant job since I started acting, is like a family environment where everyone adores and supports each other. It has helped me develop as an actor because it has allowed me to take risks – I’m not afraid to put myself out there.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008

On who she is:
“I’m an Albertan, that’s just who I am.”
– Calgary Herald, February 1 2008