Malachi Kirby Quotes

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

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

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.

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

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

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

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

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.

My big thing is that I always get typecast.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

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.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.