Katey Sagal Quotes

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.

It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I’ve worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It’s on a case-by-case for me, right now.

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.