Quotes About Typecast

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

I was afraid that I'd be typecast as the token firang. That happened initially. Now, I am acting in 'Noises Off' and 'Menagerie,' where all of us are playing British and American characters. That makes me feel better.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that's why I have not been put in a category.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the digital medium coming to the fore, the actors are finding equal status with the stars.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

I was typecast for a long time. A lot of people thought all Divine could do was play a loud, beefy blonde.

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.