Larry Drake Quotes

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

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.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

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 think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

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 don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.