Quotes About Typecast

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

I think I'm already slotted. After 3 Bahuraniyaan where I played a positive role, I did one negative role just as an experiment. After that I started getting only such roles.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

It's nice we're getting better representation. So being typecast now? To be a gay guy? For sure. I am one, so why not?

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

All roles I'm doing are realistic - no one offers me anything else.

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

After the release of movies like 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy' and 'Amirtham,' I was branded as an actress who can do only homely roles.