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It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast. -- Bryan Cranston
I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast. -- Elisha Cuthbert
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. -- Eugene Cernan
As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast. -- Chris Pratt
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so. -- Aisha Tyler
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast. -- Charisma Carpenter
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. -- Bert Lahr
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. -- Danny McBride
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. -- Pete Postlethwaite
I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast. -- Scott Bakula
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. -- Felicia Day
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. -- Donald Pleasence
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. -- Seth Shostak
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. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
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. -- Judah Friedlander
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. -- Christian Bale
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety. -- James McAvoy
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. -- Elisha Cuthbert
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. -- Helena Bonham Carter
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either. -- Jennifer Carpenter
I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I doubt it. I think most of my roles I've gotten have very little to do with my ethnicity. I don't feel that's a limiting factor for my career. -- Grace Park
I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously. -- Eva Green
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Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well. -- Judah Friedlander
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!' -- Eva Green
I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching. -- Deepika Padukone
Directors, like actors, get typecast. -- John Landis
People want to typecast you; it's human nature. -- Stacy Keach
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do. -- Michael Zaslow
I do so many roles, I can't be typecast. -- Tommy Davidson
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands. -- Randeep Hooda
If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand. -- Wood Harris
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. -- Eugene Cernan
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. -- Sam Waterston
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy. -- Gene Hackman
I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesnt necessarily bother me. -- Jodelle Ferland
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever. -- JoBeth Williams
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. -- Paul Hirsch
Apparently Iâ??ve been typecast in science fiction: Iâ??m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew. -- Claudia Christian
I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast! -- Craig Fairbrass
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world. -- Michelle Rodriguez
The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you. -- Kevin Rahm
I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast. -- Nicholas Hoult
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all. -- William Sanderson
I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. -- David Duchovny
I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast. -- Denzel Whitaker
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. -- Colin Baker
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. -- Debi Mazar
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things. -- Irene Cara
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast! -- Jonathan Frakes
Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad. -- Tyler Mane
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever. -- Michael Learned
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. -- Tom Felton
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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. -- Selma Blair
I've been very lucky with my career and don't feel like I'm being typecast in the same role over and over again. -- Rose McIver
I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did. -- Sean William Scott
It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast. -- Erica Leerhsen
What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently. -- Gabrielle Union
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. -- Phil Ramone
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. -- Meg Ryan
I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema. -- Julia Leigh
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. -- David Boreanaz
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. -- John Landis
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! -- George A. Romero
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. -- Michael K. Williams
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. -- Spike Jonze
People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires. -- Robert Pattinson
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast. -- Christopher Reeve
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. -- Selma Blair
Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast. -- Emily Watson
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. -- Lance Reddick
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 -- Bert Lahr
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. -- Bert Lahr
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. -- Hannah Murray
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. -- Katee Sackhoff
I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again. -- D. B. Sweeney
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. -- Cliff Martinez

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