Rachel Ward Quotes

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

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

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

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.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

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.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

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

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

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

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

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