DeForest Kelley Quotes

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.

I've played four roles on 'Star Trek.' My favorite episode was 'The Visitor' on 'Deep Space Nine.'

I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.

I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called 'The Philanthropist' for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called 'Hap and Leonard.' He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.

There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing to have in life; I don't mind it at all for life. But I remember, the first role I was ever cast in as a not-so-sweet-girl, I was so happy.

I loved playing Emma Pillsbury so much.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.

I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.

Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

I have always donned different looks going with the requirement of the roles I played.

I was on 'That '70s Show' as the sexy nurse. I like that show, but I hated my character. I was like, 'I will never do anything like this again in my life. I feel crazy.'

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

I've always wanted to do a feature film, because, as a model, you have to play so many different characters.

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.