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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

— Ben McKenzie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

— Charisma Carpenter

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

— Famke Janssen

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

— Aaron Tveit

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

— Elisha Cuthbert

I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

— Taylor Swift

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

— Michael K. Williams

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

— Leslie Nielsen

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

— Hunter Hayes

Is typecasting really a problem?

— Christopher Walken

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

— Paul Hirsch