Quotes About Typecasting

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

I mean, an actor's got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a good job. But what's the alternative? To not do a good job?

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

Of course there is a danger of typecasting, and since 'Jewel in the Crown' appeared, I have had countless offers to play sadistic policemen and middle-class misfits.

After I played the frigid doctor on the 'Peyton Place' series, all I got for a long while was offers for more frigid doctor parts.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

I think you're stereotyped after every film. Post 'Dev D,' I was only offered bold roles. Similarly, after 'Margarita With A Straw,' I was offered roles where I had to play differently-abled people. So, no matter what type of film you work in, people tend to slot you.

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