Quotes About Career

I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I've gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don't feel that's a limiting factor for my career.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

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.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

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.

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

If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.

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

I got to a point where I was completely typecast, and I knew I was paying my dues, and I was happy to do so because I knew that's what had to happen, and I loved acting. But I would never go back.

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

I was determined not to be typecast.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

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

Frankly speaking, I don't want to be typecast as someone who only does negative roles.

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

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.

I used to get typecast when I was younger.