People ask me, 'Are you worried you're going to be typecast as a John Locke type of guy?' I say he's the perfect guy to be typecast as! He's vulnerable and ambitious and sort of unstable. It was a good actor's role.
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
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 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.
If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.
My big thing is that I always get typecast.
I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.