James Roday Quotes

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.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

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

I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn't get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you've done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

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

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

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

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?'