I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We’re only human beings.
I don’t subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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.
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.
As long as I keep getting cast, I don’t care if it’s typecast.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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 hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain’t cancer.
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.
It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.
I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.
I’ve always played variety of roles and don’t want to get 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.
I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing one type of role, but I really don’t think that my role in ‘Weeds’ did at all.
I believe that actors should be open to breaking stereotypes and television has now a lot to offer. So, being typecast is not my style.
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.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren’t all that many parts for lions.
You can’t allow yourself to get typecast as a recruiter, because that label sticks and carries. I fought it. I made myself learn the game and teach the game.
I am really happy that even though I am stuck in the comedy genre I have not been typecast. I am still getting to experiment a lot with my characters, which is a boon.
It’s logical when you become known to the industry with ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ that they typecast you and want you in their horror movies. That’s how I got ‘Blade,’ of course, because they were fans.
It’s not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.
I didn’t want to get typecast doing an item number in ‘Corporate,’ so I didn’t do it then.
I don’t want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won’t deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.
There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the digital medium coming to the fore, the actors are finding equal status with the stars.
No, the type-casting didn’t happen until after Star Trek. I don’t think that you get typecast until you’ve been cast!
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you’ll never do anything good.
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 haven’t worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn’t want to be working with the bad guys. I didn’t want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn’t think were helping people, really.
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.
Getting typecast depends on the roles we choose, doesn’t it? When the same kind of characters are offered to you, you have the option of not doing them.
I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.
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.
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 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 think I’ve proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That’s how it always works.
I was afraid that I’d be typecast as the token firang. That happened initially. Now, I am acting in ‘Noises Off’ and ‘Menagerie,’ where all of us are playing British and American characters. That makes me feel better.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I’m trapped in a genre that I love, but I’m trapped in it!
Gujaratis, all the South Indians, Bengalis or sometimes even Punjabis – when it comes to mainstream storytelling, most of the time they are all typecast.
In Hollywood, one doesn’t get typecast. You can play a mother in one film and take up the role of a high school teenager in the next.
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 always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
In Hindi films, it’s easy to 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 really hard to not get put in a box when you’re acting and get typecast.
I don’t believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
I did a show where I played the mother of a 15-year-old, I was 20 years old when I played a mom of 45. And then, when I was around 28-30, I played mother to Akshay Kumar. So I got typecast very early, if I didn’t even have to reach a certain age point.
I was always typecast as a Latina.
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose,’ and once people hear you scream, they can’t un-hear it. But I don’t mean to say that I’ve been typecast, either.
In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.
I’d rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don’t know what’s coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I’m working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don’t want to be like ‘Okay, I’m French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!’
I’ve been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don’t think I’m in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there’s honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn’t easy. And I’m no matinee idol.
I was afraid I’d be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.
People ask me, ‘Are you worried you’re going to be typecast as a John Locke type of guy?’ I say he’s the perfect guy to be typecast as! He’s vulnerable and ambitious and sort of unstable. It was a good actor’s role.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.
People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.
I was typecast for a long time. A lot of people thought all Divine could do was play a loud, beefy blonde.
If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.
I love that I’m a character actress and get to do so many different and interesting roles. There’s really no reason that I can’t continue on forever, because I’ve never been typecast as one thing.
