Katie McGrath Quotes

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.