Quotes About Career

As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back and say, look, I was able to get this much out of my playing career and I was able to become this type of player. I think that's what allows you to sleep well at night.

In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

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'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.

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

I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.

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.

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

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.

When the mid-'70s came around, it looked like, 'Oh-oh, here come the punks.' But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there... There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.

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.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being 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.

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

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

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

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

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.