Jonathan Frakes Quotes

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

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

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

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

My big thing is that I always get typecast.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

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

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.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

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

I used to get typecast when I was younger.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

I don't want to be typecast.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

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.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

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

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.