Quotes from Katee Sackhoff

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

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.

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 find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.

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 wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.

With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.

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.

When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.