Bela Lugosi Quotes

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

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

I didn't want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn't work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.

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

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

I didn't want to get typecast doing an item number in 'Corporate,' so I didn't do it then.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

I have this demure, girl-next-door image and audiences will not accept me in glamour roles.

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires. I don't know if people will accept me in them, or whatever, but there's really nothing to be afraid of.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

I have been fortunate to get different types of work, but by and large till 90s for actors like me there were not many opportunities besides playing brother of the heroine or friend of the hero or young college villain after the earlier new wave was consumed by television.

I want to sustain the good name that I earned acting in 'Azhagiya Theeyae.' I am selecting my roles very carefully.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.