Anne Hegerty Quotes

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

I really want to do acting, and I don't want to be typecast because of my tattoos.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

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.

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.

So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.