Bill Hader Quotes

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

I'd like to talk in my own accent, but then there's that thing about getting typecast as, 'The British guy.' The role that makes you, that's normally what you're cast as forever more. Like, if I did a huge film with my British accent, that would be that.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

Actually two films is too short a time for an actor to get typecast.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

You're always going to have typecasting, especially with TV.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

I became stereotyped.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

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.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

Stereotypes are so played out.