Typecasting Quotes

#1. I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

Kelly Macdonald

#2. I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

Michael K. Williams

#3. I certainly don't feel like I've been the victim of typecasting.

Daniel Sunjata

#4. I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

#5. Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

Aaron Tveit

#6. I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

Michael Clarke Duncan

#7. Early in my career, having many visible tattoos created obstacles and presented quite a challenge to move forward. I've heard comments like, 'actors don't have tattoos.' The notion of typecasting was a reoccurring theme despite my passion toward creativity and personal expression.

Robert LaSardo

#8. I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

Kali Hawk

#9. I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

Famke Janssen

#10. I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

Troy Garity

#11. Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

Felicia Day

#12. Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Steve Guttenberg

#13. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#14. Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

Bill Hader

#15. I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

Michael Mosley

#16. As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

Jeff Bridges

#17. Is typecasting really a problem?

Christopher Walken

#18. 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

Wendell Pierce

#19. It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Christine Lagarde

#20. Here is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon ...

Aldous Huxley

#21. It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

G. Willow Wilson

#22. The life I had known scattered like the ashes of my wings, to be born again in the pure light of Abby's love.

Ashlan Thomas

#23. The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

Tom Szaky