Talent Underutilization Quotes

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing.

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.

Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.

It's nice to be thought of as attractive and all of that. On the other hand, it curtails you somewhat, too. They won't let me read for 'West Wing,' just to play, you know, a normal person. Or 'ER,' to play a doctor - the things I'm actually good at. I mean, I'm pretty good on foreign policy - they won't even let me come read for that.

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.