Top 169 Quotes & Sayings by Katee Sackhoff
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Last updated on April 13, 2025.
I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.
I hate horror movies, with a passion.
Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.
The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia - I always wanted to be Han Solo!
People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.
I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
You can't win some people over.
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.
You know, I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable.
No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.
I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.
I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.
I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.
People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
I wear high heels and dresses. I am a total girly girl.
I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.
People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
I don't watch a lot of TV.
I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
I still sleep with my baby blanket.
I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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