Top 125 Typecast Quotes

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.

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.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.

If I have to be typecast, I’d like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I’d say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I’d only be in action films, but I’m interested in a more varied career than that.

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

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

I’ve had a wonderful time in ‘Foyle’s War’ and I don’t mind being typecast. But I’m not prim. I’m chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I’d love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

It’s a good thing to be typecast, isn’t it?

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.

Sometimes I’ve felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn’t think, ‘Ooh I’ve got to avoid being typecast’ – you can’t ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I feel that I have not got my due in films. However, I did a lot of good work on television and that’s why I never got typecast.

What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It’s so refreshing. They’re playing different kinds of characters, and they aren’t being typecast.

I don’t want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

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

I don’t feel as if I’m typecast – like any writer, the difficulty is that one facet of my identity becomes louder, obscuring the fact that I’m also a woman, a writer, a lover of pop culture and other things.

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.

My big thing is that I always get typecast.

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

I have never been typecast.

Right from my first movie, I have tried hard to make sure I am not typecast.

I don’t want to be typecast as the ‘ambient guy’ or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped – every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

I was typecast in a mother’s role very early in life. I didn’t even reach a certain age. I was 20.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn’t work out.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don’t want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys – which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don’t understand what’s going on.

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that’s a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

What do you do when you don’t have money to buy food or a house to live in? You accept whatever you get and incidentally, you are typecast in a particular role. And if you say no, eventually someone else will end up doing it, which will lead to an increase in the competition.

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

People want to typecast you; it’s human nature.

At this point in my career, it doesn’t bother me much that I’m probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

I think it’s restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I have never feared of being typecast as I tried to do different roles on television.

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 was determined not to be typecast.

Never work against what you are. I never have, and I’ve never minded being typecast. Some of my agents have been like: try and change, Victoria. Cut your hair off, colour it, have a breast reduction.You have to this and that, to get a serious acting role. But I would rather use what I am to my advantage.

The idea is to resist being typecast. I like doing different things.

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.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

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.

I think there’s a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

‘Night of the Comet’ established me as a strong woman. And let’s face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional – so it’s easy to get typecast.

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

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.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

I hate being typecast and I don’t want to do things that are boring for me because it would be boring for the viewers as well.

I try not to get typecast in any role, any image. I feel I can do justice to every kind of role, so why not make the best of it? See, commercial films alone can get you only so far. If you want to last as an actress, then you have to put in that extra bit of investment by doing off-beat films, too.

I’ve done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I’ve really tried to avoid being typecast.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you’ll get typecast in that space.

If I look at Dad’s earlier work – ‘Bandini,’ ‘Satyakam,’ ‘Chupke Chupke,’ ‘Jeevan Mrityu’ – and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn’t want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don’t know. I don’t think so. But if it happens, I’d rather get to play that, because there’s nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I’d be happy staying away from that.

I generally get challenged; I haven’t been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It’s not something that every actor gets, really. It’s luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren’t afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

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.