Dave Franco Quotes

There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

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

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

I don't want a 'good' image.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

Throughout my football career, I've always been somebody who's been very aware, and I know when the camera is on me, and I know how to be polished. I can see how that might come off as disingenuous.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

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.'

Celebrity and actor are two completely different professions, and I don't believe that they mix if you want to maintain any sort of credibility.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.

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

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

You're seen a certain way in the acting world. To them, you're still a football player and not taken as seriously. They think you're just doing it to be a celebrity, to keep your name out there. They don't think you'll prepare.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

It's not like I played a villain and everyone goes 'ugh, there's that guy again'.