Sean Bean Quotes

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

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

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.

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

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

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 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 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.

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

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

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

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

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

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

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage, I think.

There were offers to do 'Tum Bin 2' and 'Tum Bin 3' but then it would have been the same kind of franchise films which I think limit an actor.

People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It took some time before people would consider me for other parts.

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

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

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.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.