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As much as I loved playing that character (on 'Committed'), it did scare me if that show had a long run that people would typecast me as a slightly crazy, ditzy character.

Jennifer Finnigan

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

Colin Baker

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

Bert Lahr

Most people would say no, but the reality is when you get typecast like that there's got to be some germ of something in there, ... Seinfeld.

The Sixth Sense

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

James Cagney

[Denver, however, never escaped being typecast as Gilligan.] That's the damaging thing about being terrific in what you do as an actor, ... Everybody wants you to be the same person.

Sherwood Schwartz

One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things, ... and if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

Colin Wilson

With his Hollywood looks, he was typecast to play the governor of the great state of Texas.

Kathy Walt

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

Elisha Cuthbert