Colm Meaney Quotes

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

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 think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

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.

Something that can happen when you enter the world of being an actress is that people see you one way and have a really hard time using their imaginations to see you any other way. I would be completely satisfied if I could go the rest of my life without being super-huge and super pigeonholed - I would love to play different characters the rest of my life.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.

If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

I think you're stereotyped after every film. Post 'Dev D,' I was only offered bold roles. Similarly, after 'Margarita With A Straw,' I was offered roles where I had to play differently-abled people. So, no matter what type of film you work in, people tend to slot you.

Every actor gets an image without wanting one. A lot of romantic heroes want an action hero tag, but they are unable to succeed even though their films are good.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.