Zitat des Tages über Typecast:
I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.
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.
I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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 believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.
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.
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'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!'
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
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.
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.
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.
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
I really want to do acting, and I don't want to be typecast because of my tattoos.
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.
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.
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.
I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.
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.
I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
It's not a bad typecast: the goofy guy.
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
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'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.
I was always typecast as a Latina.
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.
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!
