James Caan Quotes

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

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.

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

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

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

I certainly don't feel like I've been the victim of typecasting.

You're always going to have typecasting, especially with TV.

You can't tag me as a regional actress.

I don't want to be typecast.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People like to pigeonhole you.

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.