Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.
It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.
As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
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.
I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.
From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.
Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
