Natalie Zea Quotes

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

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

If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

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

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.

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

Over the years, I've had a few roles where I've had to take my shirt off. I've kind of been the 'shirt-off' guy.

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

I love Chuck Lorre. I did a little guest spot on 'Roseanne' when I was fourteen. It was a whirlwind experience in a week and I think with Chuck, I had auditioned for him for a couple of other shows of his over the years.

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.

The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?

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

I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

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 know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

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

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'