Sean Bean Quotes

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.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

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 don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

I'm not really a redhead, but I keep playing these redhead actresses. Which I don't mind; I think it's fun.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

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.

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

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

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

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

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

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

I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest 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.