Charles Dance Quotes

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

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.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.

People label you the way they know you best.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.