Jodelle Ferland Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

My big thing is that I always get typecast.

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

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

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

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.

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.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

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.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

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

Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

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.

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.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

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