Typecast Quotes

#1. 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.

Samira Wiley

#2. I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level.

Jason Momoa

#3. Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'

Brian F. O'Byrne

#4. 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.

Donald Pleasence

#5. 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.

Madhuri Dixit

#6. If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Sam Waterston

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

Randeep Hooda

#8. 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.

Alexander Gould

#9. 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.

Tom Felton

#10. If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

James Purefoy

#11. 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.

Eva Green

#12. No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

Susan Marg

#13. 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.

Elisha Cuthbert

#14. 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.

Rose McIver

#15. I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

Jeffrey Hunter

#16. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

Aisha Tyler

#17. 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.

Bert Lahr

#18. Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman

#19. 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.

Famke Janssen

#20. 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.

Danny McBride

#21. It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

Sean Bean

#22. I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.

Jim Piddock

#23. 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.

Julia Leigh

#24. People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Stacy Keach

#25. 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.

Meg Ryan

#26. 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.

Scott Bakula

#27. 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.

Jacki Weaver

#28. 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.

James McAvoy

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

Paul Hirsch

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

Charisma Carpenter

#31. I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast!

Craig Fairbrass

#32. To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.

Ali Suliman

#33. I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Nicholas Hoult

#34. 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.

David Boreanaz

#35. 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.

D. B. Sweeney

#36. I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

Peter Sarsgaard

#37. I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

Selma Blair

#38. This is not the 19th century, where actors are expected to play completely opposite roles. We're not typecast, but we're brought in because somebody thinks that it's a good fit, so you make it a better fit.

Kate Mulgrew

#39. I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

Ryan Cartwright

#40. Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#41. 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.

Alden Ehrenreich

#42. In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

Christopher Reeve

#43. Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

Tyler Mane

#44. Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.

Francesca Lia Block

#45. 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.

Helena Bonham Carter

#46. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down.

Dana Hill

#47. I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.

Kristy Swanson

#48. The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

Michelle Rodriguez

#49. I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

Ian McKellen

#50. I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Michael K. Williams

#51. 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.

Selma Blair

#52. I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

Irene Cara

#53. As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

Chris Pratt

#54. 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.

Cliff Martinez

#55. 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.

Seth Shostak

#56. 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.

Randeep Hooda

#57. People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires.

Robert Pattinson

#58. Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

James Cagney

#59. 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.

Jennifer Carpenter

#60. I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

Jared Harris

#61. 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.

January Jones

#62. I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#63. You get typecast. You have to find a niche in this business. So, the roles that I got cast in were the Latina or the Italian spitfires. The woman with a passion and the woman who didn't want to listen to anyone, did everything her own way, very self-willed.

Patricia Mauceri

#64. 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.

Spike Jonze

#65. You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

Randy Bachman

#66. I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

Katee Sackhoff

#67. Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

John Landis

#68. 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.

Honeysuckle Weeks

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

Jonathan Frakes

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

Debi Mazar

#71. It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

Bryan Cranston

#72. That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Michael Rispoli

#73. After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

Bert Lahr

#74. 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!

George A. Romero

#75. 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.

Judah Friedlander

#76. If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

Wood Harris

#77. I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

William Sanderson

#78. I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

Patrick Wilson

#79. The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Kevin Rahm

#80. If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

Colin Baker

#81. People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Eugene Cernan

#82. Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

Felicia Day

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

Andrew-Lee Potts

#84. I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

David Duchovny

#85. 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.

Brian Huskey

#86. '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.

Catherine Mary Stewart

#87. 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.

John Carpenter

#88. I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#89. 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.

Yakov Smirnoff

#90. I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.

Condola Rashad

#91. I don't think I'd ever get typecast as a soldier.

Brian Geraghty

#92. 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.

Grace Park

#93. 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.

David Schwimmer

#94. 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.

Owain Yeoman

#95. I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

Seann William Scott

#96. From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

Lance Reddick

#97. I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

Tommy Davidson

#98. If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.

Phil Ramone

#99. I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

Michael Learned

#100. It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

Erica Leerhsen