Maria Taylor Quotes

I stay out of typecasting ruts.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.

I have had a wide range of projects to choose from. That has saved me from donning a stereotypical image.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.