Kris Holden-Ried Quotes

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

– Kris Holden-Ried

I love period pieces. It’s where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That’s what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

– Kris Holden-Ried

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you’re fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

– Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read – anything from ‘Dragonlance,’ when I was 12, to ‘The Wheel of Time’ and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did ‘Game of Thrones.’

– Kris Holden-Ried

It turns out that I’ve become a pretty good werewolf actor. I’m going to have to try to get myself into a different position, at some point in the future, but I’ll take werewolf. Werewolf is pretty damn fun to play.

– Kris Holden-Ried

I always thought I was doing something special with ‘Lost Girl.’ How that would be reflected or responded to by the fans, I hadn’t really considered. That they are so loyal is amazing. We have such lovely fans.

– Kris Holden-Ried

I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and ‘Lost Girl’ really fits in with that.

– Kris Holden-Ried

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

– Kris Holden-Ried

I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn’t want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, ‘Yeah, maybe you’re right. I don’t know anything about acting.’

– Kris Holden-Ried

‘Lost Girl’ has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It’s an escape or a release for people, and that’s the best we can hope for.

– Kris Holden-Ried

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn’t have to drop out of school.

– Kris Holden-Ried