Paul Dano Quotes

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

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

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

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

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

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

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

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

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.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

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.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

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.

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.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.