Top 50 Katee Sackhoff Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.”

— Katee Sackhoff

2. “You don’t want to go right, if everyone thinks you’re going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can’t explain why, and you can’t explain what left looks like, but you just do it.”

— Katee Sackhoff

3. “I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have. I’m trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition and do different things at different points in my life, then that’s fine.”

— Katee Sackhoff

4. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

5. “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. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It’s the two sides of myself.”

— Katee Sackhoff

6. “Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I’d have gone “What?” and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.”

— Katee Sackhoff

7. “I hate horror movies, with a passion.”

— Katee Sackhoff

8. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

9. “I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.”

— Katee Sackhoff

10. “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.’”

— Katee Sackhoff

11. “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.’”

— Katee Sackhoff

12. “I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is so much more fun than playing the good guy because who wouldn’t want to go to work and just be crazy?”

— Katee Sackhoff

13. “I’m kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.”

— Katee Sackhoff

14. “Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.”

— Katee Sackhoff

15. “Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.”

— Katee Sackhoff

16. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

17. “I think Gods wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. Its like a cosmic do-over.”

— Katee Sackhoff

18. “Some of the craziest people I’ve met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I’ve met. It’s almost as if they get bored in their own brain and they have to come up with this craziness to stay interested in life.”

— Katee Sackhoff

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

— Katee Sackhoff

20. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

21. “I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.”

— Katee Sackhoff

22. “Im a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. Its fun, you know? Its things I wouldnt 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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

23. “The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn’t even at his pec yet. I was like, “Oh my God, this man is massive.””

— Katee Sackhoff

24. “As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.”

— Katee Sackhoff

25. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

26. “It took a week for me to be able to take the gun apart, put the gun back together, get the ammunition and load, all the while keeping my eyes down the scope, which was something I’d never had to do before.”

— Katee Sackhoff

27. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

28. “If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.”

— Katee Sackhoff

29. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

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

— Katee Sackhoff

31. “Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.”

— Katee Sackhoff

32. “I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.”

— Katee Sackhoff

33. “There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you’re surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn through time different defense mechanisms, and it could be for protection, for emotional, physical, everything.”

— Katee Sackhoff

34. “I believe that if doors don’t open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.”

— Katee Sackhoff

35. “When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.”

— Katee Sackhoff

36. “Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.”

— Katee Sackhoff

37. “People don’t realize that I started in musical theater. That’s where my roots are.”

— Katee Sackhoff

38. “The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she’s just completely gone and has no humanity.”

— Katee Sackhoff

39. “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.”

— Katee Sackhoff

40. “I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when Im in Starbucks.”

— Katee Sackhoff

41. “I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.”

— Katee Sackhoff

42. “Every job after the first job I got was icing on the cake. This is so much fun.”

— Katee Sackhoff

43. “I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!”

— Katee Sackhoff

44. “The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator – I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I’ve has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I’ve also had this thing where I’ve idolized the male action heroes because that’s what I watched with my dad.”

— Katee Sackhoff

45. “That’s a terrifying prospect for myself, and I’m sure many other people, as well. We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player, constantly, to just hear music. I’m really intrigued by the idea of solitude. I’m excited about that.”

— Katee Sackhoff

46. “It’s a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that’s not normal.”

— Katee Sackhoff

47. “There’s a little bit of me in all of the characters I’ve played. I’ve never really had the opportunity to play something that’s a complete departure from me.”

— Katee Sackhoff

48. “I was such a huge Bruce Willis fan because of all the Die Hards and Arnold Schwarzenegger was like ‘the guy.’ Kindergarten Cop was filmed in my home state and I was like, “He’s awesome! Now he gets his hair cut next to me, it’s fantastic. ””

— Katee Sackhoff

49. “Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn’t stop.”

— Katee Sackhoff

50. “I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.”

— Katee Sackhoff