Suman Ranganathan Quotes

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

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

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I thought, 'Great, I'll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I'll do something else.'

I was initially excited about modelling, but soon, I started feeling detached with the job. I wanted dynamic growth in whatever I did.

I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.

I always found new challenges in my career.

The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next.

I just wanted to go to the right team, a team that was going to allow me to learn and come in and just be me.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

I do not wish to work in the TV industry anymore.