Amanda Tapping Quotes

United Kingdom, Actress
August 28, 1965

Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is an English actress and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. She also starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy television series Sanctuary.

Also known as Director

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

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- Women
- Girl
- Strong
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.

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- Time
- Women
- Comedy

Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.

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- Time
- Money
- Done
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

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- Character
I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.

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I've always found that sci-fi fans are unbelievably generous.

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