Typecasting Quotes

“I've not particularly chosen to be a sex symbol, but I've been typecast.”

“Now I am the bogeyman. I am the monster that parents tell their children about at night.”

“I felt like I was a little pigeonholed for a while there after 'Happy Days'.”

“I've always been a physical actor. That's why I'm always cast as werewolves and things like that.”

“I'm not Norman Bates. I'm an actor who played a part.”

“I was the queen of the Warners lot. I was beautiful, but I was cold. I was a statuesque 'ice maiden.' That was my image.”

“Once a vamp, always a vamp.”

“People know my face, they know my name, but they don't know me. I'm not the girl from The Exorcist.”

“I never had a fight in my life. I had that reputation, I guess. I looked like a tough guy, so I got tough-guy roles.”

“'Hit 'Em Up Style' was a blessing and a curse. It was a huge hit, but it also put me in a box.”

“I've played more psychotics and freaks and killers than any other actor.”

“I have to get my career back to where it was.”

“Once you've been portrayed as a villain, you'll have a lot of difficult times in your life, because a lot of people don't like you for that.”

“I've been killed more often than the world's worst matador.”

“I left 'Baywatch' because I really couldn't stand the thought of being in a bathing suit for the rest of my life.”

“I was offered a lot of villains after 'Cuckoo's Nest.' I had to turn them down. I could have made a career of playing villains, but I didn't want to do that.”

“I wasn't a 'horror fan.' I was a 'classical actor.' I didn't want to be a 'spook.'”

“I was typecast as a handsome, romantic lead. I was never a character actor.”

“I was never a matinee idol. I was never a pretty boy. I was always the guy who was a little bit dangerous.”

“I've done a lot of bad-guy roles, and I have to say I'm sick of it. I'm not a bad guy.”