Sebastian Stan Quotes

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

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor - the day in and day out of it.

I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.

People told me, 'you can't do intense characters.' Some said 'you look too commercial,' and I would wonder what a 'commercial look' is.

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

I'm, like, the only actor in New York who's never, ever been on any 'Law & Order.' And I've auditioned for so many. The sad thing is I love 'Law & Order.' I'm really obsessed with it. And they always said to me, 'You seem like you're making fun of the material.'

Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days.

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

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.