John Woo Quotes

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

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

Is typecasting really a problem?

I think you're stereotyped after every film. Post 'Dev D,' I was only offered bold roles. Similarly, after 'Margarita With A Straw,' I was offered roles where I had to play differently-abled people. So, no matter what type of film you work in, people tend to slot you.

I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

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

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

I hate stereotypical roles.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.