Carole Ann Ford Quotes

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

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

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

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

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

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 worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

I stopped working in Bollywood because I was getting the same kind of work.

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

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.

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

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

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 was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

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.