Quotes About Acting

I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.

I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.

There's not a ton of roles out there for the insecure, loud Britney Spears type.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

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.

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 don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

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.

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.