Aisha Tyler Quotes

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

You're always going to have typecasting, especially with TV.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

I understand that, being born with a certain face, people want to see me in certain roles. But one needs to break that image by doing different kinds of films.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

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

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

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

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.