Carla Gallo Quotes

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

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.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

Frankly speaking, I don't want to be typecast as someone who only does negative roles.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

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 used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

It's so funny: I sort of fell into genre roles, but I'm not really a genre guy.

I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.