Top 231 Typecast Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I was typecast for a long time. A lot of people thought all Divine could do was play a loud, beefy blonde.
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.
I can't be typecast as a comedian. Only an actor capable of doing three-dimensional roles can do comedy.
It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
I believe that actors should be open to breaking stereotypes and television has now a lot to offer. So, being typecast is not my style.
I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
Gujaratis, all the South Indians, Bengalis or sometimes even Punjabis - when it comes to mainstream storytelling, most of the time they are all typecast.
I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that's why I have not been put in a category.
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.
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.
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether or not they're seen is another issue.
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.
It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.
I was typecast in a mother's role very early in life. I didn't even reach a certain age. I was 20.
It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.
I don't like to get typecast, and I believe, one should be cautious while choosing roles.
Frankly speaking, I don't want to be typecast as someone who only does negative roles.
The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.
Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.
Getting typecast depends on the roles we choose, doesn't it? When the same kind of characters are offered to you, you have the option of not doing them.
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.
At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.
I play the Wicked Queen in 'Snow White.' I'm not typecast. It's terrible. I should be Prince Charming.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
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.
I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.
I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.
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'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.
People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.
'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business is very surface and one dimensional - so it's easy to get typecast.
It's nice we're getting better representation. So being typecast now? To be a gay guy? For sure. I am one, so why not?
I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.
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 wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.
I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.
As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I'm happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.
I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.
For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.
In Hollywood, one doesn't get typecast. You can play a mother in one film and take up the role of a high school teenager in the next.
I am a product of the Film and Television Institute of India, so I never categorised my roles, but yes I was typecast by the producers and the directors as a villain.
I have been very lucky that I never got typecast while playing female characters.
I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.
I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
I have played a cop a lot over the years and sometimes I get a bit scared of being typecast.
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.
Right from my first movie, I have tried hard to make sure I am not typecast.
It generally happens that when actors do mythology shows, they get typecast, but it didnt happen with me.
From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.
I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.
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.
