Quotes About Typecast

I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

TV doesn't have variety. It's a fact that you don't have different roles to perform. You get similar characters only.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

People tend to call me for only one thing - NRI-based roles. I'd like to change that and expand a little bit, and have more substance.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.

After the success of 'Qabool Hai,' I was always assigned for the same type of roles.

People don't remember my work in my earlier films, as 'PKP' has been etched forever in their minds. So, I get similar kind of roles.

I hate being typecast and I don't want to do things that are boring for me because it would be boring for the viewers as well.

It's a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

As an actor it gets boring to play always the villain.

I am a product of the Film and Television Institute of India, so I never categorised my roles, but yes I was typecast by the producers and the directors as a villain.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.