Hunter Parrish Quotes

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.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

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.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

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

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

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.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

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.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.