Best Typecasting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That's the problem with friends sometimes, they invest in who you were or seem to have been, capture you and you're through. Forget what you had in mind about changing, growing, developing. Got you typecasted.”

Growth Change Friends Assumptions Perceptions Typecasting

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Directors, like actors, get typecast.”

Actors Directors Typecasting

Author:John Landis

“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.”

People Ifs Way Want Different Sometimes Play Interesting Opinion Roles One Thing Going To Work Interesting Things Typecasting

Author:Aaron Tveit

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

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Author:Gene Cernan

“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.”

People Believe May Mean Different Character Sides Don't Believe Track Stereotype Typecasting They Are All The Same

Author:Michael K. Williams

“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.”

People Thinking World Trying Years Looks Next Waiting Careers Saws Projects Understood Typecasting

Author:Chris Colfer

“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.”

Kind Used Enjoy Fine Horror Died Work Out Cinema Doorstep Typecasting

Author:John Carpenter

“I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.”

Trying Different Roles Typecasting

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

“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?”

Ifs Knows Want School Class Study High School Shops Sunday Saturday Preps Private School Detention Typecasting

Author:Judd Nelson

“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.”

Doe Different Done Found Waiting Roles Pursue Typecasting

Author:Christian Bale

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

World Film Independent Worried Independent Film Typecasting

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“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!”

Doe Actors Genre Filmmaker Trapped Typecasting

Author:George A. Romero

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

Thinking Smart Complaining Typecasting

Author:Aisha Tyler

“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.”

Decided Hollywood Secretary Quirky Typecasting

Author:Felicia Day

“As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.”

Thinking Men Different Roles Romantic Killers Diverse Romantic Love Avoided Persona Latches Psychopathic Typecasting

Author:Jeff Bridges

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

Waiting Acting Typecasting

Author:Christian Bale

“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.”

Way Want Giving Too Much Hot Chicks Typecasting Hot Chick

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

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

Actors Typecasting

Author:Bryan Cranston

“I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.”

Feels Victim Typecasting

Author:Daniel Sunjata

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

Trying Stereotype Typecasting

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

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

Known Good Things Typecasting

Author:Steve Guttenberg

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

Actors New York Great Things Typecasting

Author:Debi Mazar

“No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!”

Thinking Happens Stars Type Casts Casting Typecasting

Author:Jonathan Frakes

“Is typecasting really a problem?”

Problem Typecasting

Author:Christopher Walken

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

Ifs Turns Frightened Typecasting

Author:Colin Baker

“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.'”

Want Trying Years Looks Ends Shows Able Fall Waiting Careers Tomorrow Range Turned Down Gimmicks Typecasting Before I Fall

Author:Troy Garity

“I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.”

Play Able Felt Havens Type Lucky Productions Wide Range Typecasting

Author:Kali Hawk

“I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.”

Trying I Can Hard Fighting Typecasting

Author:Famke Janssen

“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.”

Kind Persons Different Character Certain Strong Type Quiet Casts Introverted Typecasting

Author:Kelly Macdonald

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