Alexis Korner Quotes

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

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

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

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

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

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.

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

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.'

It's a pity I have been stereotyped as a villain.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

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

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

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.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

Is typecasting really a problem?

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

I used to get typecast when I was younger.

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

People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.