People like you in negative roles, they want to see you only in negative roles and thus you get typecast. At the end of the day, what matters is whether the audience loves you or not.
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.
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.
Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.
I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.
I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.
Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.
I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.
I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.
I want to be a three-dimensional actor, excelling in comedy, negative roles and even serious roles.
I can't be typecast as a comedian. Only an actor capable of doing three-dimensional roles can do comedy.
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
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.
Frankly speaking, ever since my debut, I have been offered cop roles. However, I never felt confident about pulling them off, probably due to my short physique or the absence of the required traits in me.
I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.