Jai Courtney Quotes

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

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.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Initially after 'Sherlock,' I got offered a lot of swinger movies. There is that thing of keeping your mystique and not taking your clothes off in every job.

Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

I think I've been cast as toughs as far as I can remember always, always.

Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'

In the beginning of our career, we want to make an identity, and I am happy that people think I have good comic timing, and they are casting me in films.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

There's a lot to be said for women who want to focus primarily on acting. Other women, on the other hand, aspire to combine their work in acting with other ventures in fashion, business, directing, writing, producing, etc. It's a very personal decision.

Whenever I meet people, they call me Bittu of Stree or Omkar of Dangal. And I believe not many people know that I'm the brother of Ayushmann.

I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

I want to have a long career. But that's based on wanting people to buy into my voice and not into a fabricated image.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

I don't want to be known as just an actress. I want to be known as an entertainer and entrepreneur.