Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

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.

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

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

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

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!

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn't get good parts.

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

I get the gold-digger part six times weekly. I can play those women into the ground, but I don't want someone telling me that's all I can do.

I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.

If I only worked in England for the rest of my life, I wouldn't feel like I failed.

It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.

I'm 51 now, so there are less roles available.

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.