Repetitive Roles Quotes

Some of the biggest and most popular movie stars in the world are limited or have constantly done what they do really well. Being versatile is not necessarily the greatest quality for an actor.

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.

Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

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.

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.

I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again.

I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

It's often disappointing when you're sent scripts, and you see why you were sent it; they want you to repeat the same thing you've done before.