R. Madhavan Quotes

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

I'd like to have a different look for every film. As an actor, I think I should put more emphasis on my performance than on my looks.

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.

I've done a couple of castings... I've done an audition for 'The Hobbit.'

I understand that, being born with a certain face, people want to see me in certain roles. But one needs to break that image by doing different kinds of films.