Charlie Heaton Quotes

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

For me as an actor, I oftentimes wish producers would take a chance and cast me against type, and they often don't, so when you get a chance, you do it. At least I do.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

After doing 'War and Peace,' I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It's easy to put people into a category after you've seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I'm trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.

For the guys who feel like they are glued to one position or one sport, don't do it man, do whatever you want to do.

Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to go off and do other things purely because it was out there, you know. I'm kind of glad that I did and that I didn't just stick with one thing.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

I have never tried to bind myself in some kind of an image on screen. I have always tried to do different things.

It's a reality that you get boxed and stereotyped, but I am not afraid of that. It's my quest as an actor to explore different territories.

I've always wanted to explore different types of roles and prove to others that Divyanka is not all about being a timid dulhan.

I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around 'You're the singer; You're the actor' - we have to be able to do more than one thing.

I understand that, being born with a certain face, people want to see me in certain roles. But one needs to break that image by doing different kinds of films.

As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum. And whether it's the audience or the industry, you end up getting pigeonholed as one thing. So for people to see I can be funny and stay in shape is a bit of a weight off my shoulders.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I'd love to do ads as well!

Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.