Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. — Alfred Hitchcock
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles. — Harry Morgan
Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion. — George Eads
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it. — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch
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
As the funny guy, the funny frat bro, any time I try out for that role, I get it. Like, I walk in and they're like, 'Yeah, you're it.' — Logan Paul
I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else. — Rowan Atkinson
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. — Walter Matthau
Short Typecast Quotes
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so. — Aisha Tyler
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Gene Cernan
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands. — Randeep Hooda
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do. — Michael Zaslow
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world. — Michelle Rodriguez
I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast. — Elisha Cuthbert
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. — Bert Lahr
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. — Colin Baker
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. — Paul Hirsch
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. — Sam Waterston
Being Typecast Quotes
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. — Sayings
I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level. — Jason Momoa
Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that. — January Jones
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. — Famke Janssen
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
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast. — Charisma Carpenter
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
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to be typecast in Hollywood as the kid who can cry. I don't like putting audiences through those emotional ups and downs. I don't want people to think Dana Hill is so depressing all she does is cry. But the parts are so good, I can't turn them down. — Dana Hill
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. — Yakov Smirnoff
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree. — Peter Sarsgaard
Cute Character Quotes
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. — Erma Bombeck
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. — Nick Lowe
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. — Charles Kingsley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson
Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that. — Greta Gerwig
There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked. — Colin Hanks
If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame. — Amber Heard
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon
Acting Cute Quotes
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. — Paris Hilton
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort. — Joe Dante
Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute. — Yesung
I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty. — Jay Park
I hate it when girls act stupid ’cause they think it’s cute. Intelligence is sexy. — Niall Horan
Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you? — Michelle Obama
I used to act dumb. That act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference God has given me this new chance. — Paris Hilton
Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on. — James Cagney
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes. — Ian Mckellen
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
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music. — Randy Bachman
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. — Sayings
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
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
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. — John Carpenter
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
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
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. — Meg Ryan
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. — Jeff Bridges
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. — John Cusack
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
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. — Kelly Macdonald
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
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ? — Jeffrey Hunter
I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted. — Travis Scott
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
I never worried about becoming typecast. People have said that to me, but I never worried about it. As long as the part is three dimensional, I'm okay with it, whether the role is to play the heavy, the cop. — Chazz Palminteri
I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off. — Scott Adkins
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. I don't know if people will accept me in them, or whatever, but there's really nothing to be afraid of. — Robert Pattinson
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
I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy. — Dave Bautista
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