Typecast Quotes

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.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

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

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

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

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

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.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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!