I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."
I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!
I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.
I guess technically I am a female chef, but I don't really think of myself as such.
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
