Ben Gazzara Quotes

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.

People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

For me, as an actor, it is brilliant that I can do both song-dance films and also something like 'NH10.' It is versatility which every actor aspires.

I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.

I am not from a film family. I don't know much, but I definitely knew that if I want to be a good enough actor, I should be able to do any sort of role.

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

I'm usually the bad guy, you know, but I do a lot of different genres of acting.

I am getting better offers since directors feel that I am versatile and can be more than just a girl next door. I am also seriously trying not to be repetitive.

I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'Finding Fanny.'

So far, I'm known for doing more commercial and glamorous roles. But I don't mind doing a short film.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I never felt typecast because when I was in television, I was also, simultaneously, in films. I was seen across platforms, so that's why I have not been put in a category.

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

I am an actor, I can do any role.

I can be the girl next door, be the sexy girl, be an action girl. As an actor, this is something that people need to see.

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

Every time I'm a good guy in a movie, which is the 'Marine,' people are like, 'Wow, you can play endearing. You can play kind and nice and sweet but yet hardcore.' And I'm like, 'Yeah. Just because The Miz is a jerk and an egotistical maniac doesn't mean that there isn't a softer side to Mike Mizanin.'

The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.