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Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

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.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.

Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

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 was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.