Quotes About Versatility

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

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.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.

In India, big stars like Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan do comedy and serious films and we call them great actors. But when it comes to actors of my stature, people rush to typecast me as a comedian without giving a look to all my work.

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

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

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.

I have never been 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.

As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I'm happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

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

I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being 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.

I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.

I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.

Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.