Katee Sackhoff Quotes

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

Fight scenes are very physical for me. Sometimes I require my own body to move through them before I can tell where a character's likely to feel it.

In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, 'I'd better get on my toes again.'

When I see action sequences I like, I imagine what I would do if it were me in the fight.

As much effort it takes in nailing great comic timing, it takes the same effort to ace any dance step or a romantic dialogue. All of them have their different space.

Everyone realizes when it comes to fight scenes, that's gonna be my wheelhouse.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

I had to learn a lot on 'Victorious' because I had never done multi-camera before. It's like music: You need to be on it, and there's no room for subtleties.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

The hardest thing is getting fake hit. You really have to sell it. Somebody comes at you and stops a couple inches from your face. You have to react like it's painful. In my training, those were the days I was more sore, doing gut punches or getting thrown against walls. You're moving your body in a way that's not natural.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

On 'Angel' I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz' stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.

I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.