Krystle D'Souza Quotes

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you'll get typecast in that space.

I'm not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don't mind; I think it's fun.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.

I don't want to repeat myself. I'm not going to play a guy like Allen in Happiness again any time soon because I did that and I don't want to tarnish or dilute that film by doing it again, maybe less well.

In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of lines but was in the entire movie. At the same time, everyone gets typecast, and I decided that if I was going to play a stereotypical role, I was going to play it like a three-dimensional character.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.