Maverick Carter Quotes

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

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

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

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.'

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

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

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.

I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.