Katee Sackhoff Quotes

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

For me, as an actor, just to keep acting and to keep being able to work and to do different roles and challenging roles, that's something I'd love to do.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

That's what I like about acting. You don't know where you'll be in year.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.

If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

I like to be challenged as an actor, allowing myself to take up diverse roles. Even audiences get tired of watching their stars in similar roles over and over again.

Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.