Katee Sackhoff Quotes

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

Every role I have in my kitty is different. None of them resemble the roles I have played in my earlier films.

I want to do different roles.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

Acting should be an end in itself.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

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