Katherine Kelly Quotes

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

That's the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

I have a very irregular life, and by that, I mean I do many different things with my time. No day is the same, which is great for me because as they say, 'Variety is the spice of life,' and I utterly agree and live by that statement.

I like to be in different roles.

A guy like me, it's probably pretty hard for somebody to pinpoint what position to have me do, where to put me all the time.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.