Aaron Tveit Quotes

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.