Emily Atack Quotes

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

I am not scared of getting typecast.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.

I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?