Debi Mazar Quotes

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

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 don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

I didn't want to get typecast doing an item number in 'Corporate,' so I didn't do it then.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

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.

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

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.

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

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

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.