Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

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

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

If I look like a six-pack replete warrior in 'Tanu Weds Manu,' viewers are not going accept me.

I've done a couple of castings... I've done an audition for 'The Hobbit.'

As an actor, I would love to do an out and out comedy.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

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

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

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

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

I'm an actor. It's my job.

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.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.

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

I'm from New York; I've been in show business all my life. I'm a wild and crazy gal, yet I always play these soft, warm, loving earth mothers. It's a pain in the butt. I'm a femme fatale!

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

I'm an actor.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.