Quotes About Roles

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.

As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

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.

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

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

I've been very lucky with my career and don't feel like I'm being typecast in the same role over and over again.

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

Getting typecast depends on the roles we choose, doesn't it? When the same kind of characters are offered to you, you have the option of not doing them.

I thought that after 'Hate Story 3,' people are going to typecast and offer me the same roles. But, I have been lucky enough to be offered almost all different genres.

I love that I'm a character actress and get to do so many different and interesting roles. There's really no reason that I can't continue on forever, because I've never been typecast as one thing.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

I don't like to get typecast, and I believe, one should be cautious while choosing roles.

In Hollywood, one doesn't get typecast. You can play a mother in one film and take up the role of a high school teenager in the next.

People like you in negative roles, they want to see you only in negative roles and thus you get typecast. At the end of the day, what matters is whether the audience loves you or not.

I have never feared of being typecast as I tried to do different roles on television.

I can't be typecast as a comedian. Only an actor capable of doing three-dimensional roles can do comedy.

I never planned to do female roles. It just happened. I was typecast.