Jason Isbell Quotes

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I've played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn't come close to describing who I really am.

I always feel like I'm very far from my potential.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

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.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.