Tom Noonan Quotes

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 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.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

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 still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

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

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

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.

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

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.

In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.