Cassie Scerbo Quotes

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

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

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

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

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.