Eva Green Quotes

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

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

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

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

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

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

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

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.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

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.

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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

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

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.