Kiefer Sutherland Quotes

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

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've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

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.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

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.

I don't pick my roles based on what clothes I have to wear. I pick roles because of the character I have to portray, and the public have enjoyed seeing me in those roles.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.