Trace Lysette Quotes

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

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

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

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

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

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.

I want to be able to create characters for as long as I can and I want to tell stories for as long as I can but unfortunately I'm not given those opportunities because I'm often boxed into the former category...

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

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

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

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

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

There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

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.