Gabriella Wilde Quotes

Frankly speaking, I don't want to be typecast as someone who only does negative roles.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage, I think.

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

Yes, it is funny that most of the roles that I have played so far have been negative. I have been typecast as a villain.

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

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

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.

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

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.