Quotes About Typecast

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

People ask me, 'Are you worried you're going to be typecast as a John Locke type of guy?' I say he's the perfect guy to be typecast as! He's vulnerable and ambitious and sort of unstable. It was a good actor's role.

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

After 'Kahaani,' I received a lot of offers for similar roles - from Hindi as well as Bengali filmmakers. But I didn't want a repeat performance of Bob.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

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.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.