Adam West Quotes

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

It's mainly been the case where I do very few live action roles - not out of choice but more out of not getting asked.

I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

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