Katee Sackhoff Quotes

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

I always play with character.

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

It's fun to be someone else.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.