Pete Postlethwaite Quotes

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I've previously played. It's easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don't want to do that.

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.

I think when I got into broadcasting I told myself, 'I don't ever want to be pigeonholed as one thing.'

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different, rather than saying, "Okay, I've become known for this, and I'll just do this from now on." If I feel like I've done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.

I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.