Quotes About Actor

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.

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 never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.

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

I have played a cop a lot over the years and sometimes I get a bit scared of being typecast.

I don't mind getting typecast as long as it is not overpowering me as an actor.

People don't stereotype an actor anymore because they want to see them doing more content driven roles. I can do any role. I'm not worried about getting typecast because I'm doing a period film.

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.

In terms of being typecast, if you do something like Father Ted that infiltrates the public's imagination to the extent that it did, I think realistically you're not going to be asked to do something radically different from that very often. But it's not a problem.

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.

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

In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

That would be a really ugly headline: 'American Actor Dies the Dumbest Way Possible.'