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I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

I want to do every kind of movie and role you could imagine.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I want to do more films - not just comedies, because I really want to show my range.

I can't do only goody-goody roles. I can't be complacent, I have to play characters in different genres.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I want to keep doing roles that are challenging and different.

I won't complain, but I don't want to just be doing action films and extended character transformations, you know? I want to explore, and I'm up for anything. Honestly, I just want to read a good script and fall in love.

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

I'm an actor. I can't afford to have a type. I love to mix it up.

I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again.

I've done history; I've done biopics, I've done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can't typecast me, you can't pigeonhole me.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

I'm fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That's something that I aspire to establish myself.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.