Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.
I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.