John Landis Quotes

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.

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

I know a lot of brown actors who play terrorists because they're physically intimidating. For me, it was like, 'O.K., you'll be the nerd.' So I've played the nerd. I've played food-delivery guys. But I always tried to find something in the characters so that they weren't just defined by what they looked like.

I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

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

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.

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

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

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

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.

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

For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.