David Koechner Quotes

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

I love playing odd roles.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I love playing a role, anything that's dramatic. I'm enjoying living that kind of life: being someone else, getting to die, being a temptress. I enjoy being someone else on stage.

For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.

I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.