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If you want to be an actor, pick up a copy of How to Make It in Hollywood and head for L.A. That's exactly what successful Aussie actress Poppy Montgomery did nearly a decade ago. The 27-year-old has spent the last 10 years fine-tuning her skills as an actress. Now, you can catch her in her breakout role as Samantha Spade on CBS's hit series Without a Trace.

On playing an FBI agent: [My character] is the conscience, on some level, of the show. She's more impressionable. She's a young woman in the FBI, and that's a complicated role to be in real life, I think. And it's good because they're really dealing with the issues of what it's like to be considered an attractive, young woman in a man's world.

On what she would write in her own "How To" book on Hollywood: I wouldn't be able to write it knowing what I know now. The only thing I really got from that book was Julia Roberts's manager's name. And then I called him up. The book didn't tell me to do that. I was just, like, 'I'm going to call him up and see if he'll represent me,' and it so happened that he did. So, I wouldn't be able to write that book because I think everybody's path is different.

On losing her Australian accent: I just did it. I just started talking with an American accent. I don't know; I think I have a good ear for it or something. And I stopped talking in an Australian accent altogether. It wasn't like I was doing it for work…And all my friends who knew me before were like, 'It's just too weird -- you talking like that. It's so odd. Stop it. It's irritating me,' and I would not stop.

On her aversion to cooking: I order in. I've never used my stove and I've lived in my apartment for almost two years. My luggage is stored in my kitchen -- my empty suitcases -- when I'm not travelling. I have found the best delivery places in Los Angeles and I order from there…I don't even make coffee at home. I walk to Starbucks.

On media treatment of four sisters' flower-inspired names: It's overkill, and no one cares anymore. It's been in every article. I understand it, because it's funny. But it's, like, years of it. My mom was like, 'I wish you had never told anyone, I mean, if I read this one more time…' It's just in everything. It's pretty funny though.

(Editor's Note: You're curious aren't you? Here goes. Her sisters are Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle and Marigold Sun. Sorry, Poppy.)

[source: myfw.com]

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