Typecasting Quotes

• 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

  Play, People, Interesting

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• 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

  Stars, Thinking, Casting

  "An In-Depth Interview with Jonathan Frakes". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 27, 2004.

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• Is typecasting really a problem?

  Christopher Walken

  Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Debi Mazar

  New York, Actors, Great Things

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

  Colin Baker

  Frightened, Turns, Ifs

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• 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

  Drama, Thinking, People

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

  Gene Cernan

  People, Trying, Heroic

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

  Aisha Tyler

  Smart, Thinking, Complaining

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• 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

  Work Out, Cinema, Kind

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• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Waiting, Roles, Done

  "Christian Bale: The Actor Is on a Fantastic Voyage". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2001.

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• Directors, like actors, get typecast.

  John Landis

  Directors, Actors

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. February 11, 2004.

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• 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

  Giving, Hot, Want

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 05, 2005.

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• I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Trying, Stereotype

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Actors

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• I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Directors, Fancy

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

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Independent, World, Film

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• 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

  Actors, Doe, Genre

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• 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

  Quirky, Hollywood, Secretary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

  Christian Bale

  Waiting, Acting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 18, 2012.

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

  Steve Guttenberg

  Good Things, Known

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• 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

  Believe, Mean, Character

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Strong, Character, Different

  "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com.

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• I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

  Judd Nelson

  School, Sunday, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Fall, Years, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.

  Chris Colfer

  Thinking, Careers, Years

  "Chris Colfer Talks STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, Chances of Adapting His Book THE LAND OF STORIES Into a Movie, and GLEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 5, 2013.

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