Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

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.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.

I've done history; I've done biopics, I've done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can't typecast me, you can't pigeonhole me.

I think I have been blessed to play a variety of roles. I have experimented and done different things.

They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

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.

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

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.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.