Yvette Mimieux Quotes

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

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

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

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

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

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

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.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.

For the first six years of my career, I was relegated to those girl-next-door, sweet, cheerleader kind of roles, and it was really frustrating for me because you don't have to do much acting.

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.

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

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

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.

I don't want to be typecast.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.

If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.

I was offered 10 Sultan Qureshi-type roles after 'Gangs of Wasseypur.' But I did not want to repeat that, as I have little fear of being rejected by the people.

People assume that I'm this trashy motel girl, and that those are the only roles I can play, but I really take it seriously, and I know that I can do more.

I had been typed in a particular kind of roles. It becomes boring and I feel great to have come out of sexy' tag.