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->'''Mr. Sullivan:''' Half these managers don't want actors and actresses -- they want types. When my old father was runnin' a repertory company it was actors he wanted -- fellows who could be [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]] one night and [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar Brutus]] the next and do a bit of {{farce}} or genteel comedy in the intervals. But now! If a fellow starts out making his hit with a stammer and an eyeglass he's got to play stammers and eyeglasses til he's ninety."
-->-- ''[[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Have His Carcase]]'', '''Creator/DorothyLSayers'''

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->"Because Creator/DeanNorris plays a cop in everything he's fucking in!"
-->-- '''Steven Michael Quezada''' answering Jack's question as to whether "Hank" is a cop or not, ''Series/BreakingBad'' outtakes

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->''[[Creator/LeeVanCleef Van Cleef's]] face, in close-up, has the [[ThousandYardStare lean, hardened, embittered expression]] of a man who has either ''(a'' been pursuing his lonely vengeance across the plains of the West for thirty years, or ''(b'' realizes he will be making spaghetti Westerns for the rest of his life. The two looks are nearly indiscernible.''
-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', ''Death Rides A Horse'' (1969)''

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[[folder:Web Original]]

->''Berkley also appeared in an episode of the hit procedural ''{{Series/CSI}}''. In the episode, "Lady Heather’s Box", Berkley played a foam dancer. Which is not at all like a {{Film/showgirl|s}}. Because foam.''
-->--'''[[https://lebeauleblog.com/2015/01/30/what-the-hell-happened-to-elizabeth-berkley/#more-21071 LeBeau]]''', "What the Hell Happened to Creator/ElizabethBerkley?"

->''So Creator/BruceWillis plays a burned out wise cracking cop who doesn't play by the rules. That sounds like another well known Bruce Willis movie. ''Film/TearsOfTheSun'' anyone?''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/striking-distance-1993-rowdy-herrington/ on]] ''Film/StrikingDistance'' (1993)

->''Once it's been established that [=McDowell=] is significantly villainous – which could’ve been done easier by just having him turn to the camera and list his previous credits...''
-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-tank-girl-review/ on]] Creator/MalcolmMcDowell ''Film/TankGirl'' review
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[[folder:Web Video]]

->'''Jay:''' Creator/LiamNeeson stars in five revenge films a year. He's always out to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge avenge his daughter.]]\\
'''Mike:''' Those aren't movies.\\
'''Jay:''' Is that just-- His ''life?''\\
'''Mike:''' The films that come out about Liam Neeson, it's called an "ongoing biography series."
-->--''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'', "2014 Movie Catch-Up"

->"Creator/RonnyCox, whom you may remember from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'', ''[[Film/RoboCop1987 RoboCop]]'', ''Series/CopRock'', ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopII'', and his most famous work ''Cop Cop Part Cop: Still Copping.''"
-->-- '''Website/{{SFDebris}}'''

->"Who says Creator/MichaelCera plays the same role in every movie? That's absurd! In ''Film/SuperBad'' he played a mild mannered teenager looking for love, in ''Film/{{Juno}}'' he played-- uh, okay, well in ''[[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Scott Pilgrim]]''-- in ''Film/YouthInRevolt''-- uh, okay, uh... Oh! ''Film/YearOne'', he played a mild mannered caveman looking for love. See? totally different!"
-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_ECS9Jvgk The Michael Cera School of Acting]]'''

->See Creator/WillSmith like you've never seen him before. Not as a Wildcard Cop with a By-The-Book partner from ''[[Film/BadBoys1995 Bad Boys]]'', or the Wildcard Cop with a By-The-Book partner from ''Film/MenInBlack'', or The Wildcard Cop with a By-The-Book partner from ''Film/IRobot''. Or the Wildcard Soldier with a By-The-Book partner from ''Film/IndependenceDay'', or the Wildcard Ex-Soldier with a By-The-Book partner from ''Film/WildWildWest''. Or the Wildcard Mercenary with a By-The-Book partner from ''[[{{Film/SuicideSquad2016}} Suicide Squad]]''. But a Wildcard Cop with a By-The-Book Partner: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Who's. An.]] ''[[TokenHeroicOrc ORC!]]'' '''''WHOA!'''''
-->-- '''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''', ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Bright Bright]]''

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[[folder:Real Life]]

->"With [[FaceOfAThug a face like this]], there aren't a lot of [[CrusadingLawyer lawyers]] or [[GoodShepherd priest]] roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist cop]], or a [[RabidCop trigger-happy cop]] or a [[DirtyCop crooked cop]] -- but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts."
-->--'''Creator/MCGainey'''

-> My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
-->--'''Creator/BarbaraStanwyck'''

->I've been offered so many Nazi roles. You couldn't believe. And I've never really wanted to do it. I'll only do it if it's more obtuse. Like with ''[[Film/WelcomeToMarwen Marwen]]''. Same with ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''. I never had any desire to be in that kind of movie to be honest, for obvious reasons, and I feel like it's been done to death. How many movies do we need to see about that? That’s just my opinion. But watch, next year I'll be in more Nazi movies, I'm sure.
-->--'''Creator/DianeKruger'''

->'''Conan:''' What is it about Creator/ZacharyQuinto that says '{{serial killer}}'?\\
'''Quinto:''' My [[EvilEyebrows strong brows]]?
-->--''[[Creator/ConanOBrien Conan]]''

->'''Creator/DavidWarner:''' Who else was in that cast..?\\
'''Creator/MalcolmMcdowell:''' Which one?\\
'''Warner:''' ''Hamlet''. Do tell, who was in it?\\
'''[=McDowell=]:''' Well, Estelle Kohler...\\
'''Warner:''' No no no, I meant another guy. Well-known ''Franchise/StarTrek'' guy.\\
'''[=McDowell=]:''' (''pretends to think'') Oh, you mean, uh, [[Creator/WilliamShatner Bill Shatner?]] ...''Oh''! Yes! [[Creator/PatrickStewart Old Baldy!]] He was what, 23? He was playing old men ''even then''.
-->-- ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9gx_4DL_ow#t=530s panel]], [=DragonCon=] 2013

->"I've played some romantic ones, someone who gets the girl without having to choke them once in a while; I wouldn't mind doing that more."
-->-- '''Creator/RayLiotta'''

->''[[SinisterSchnoz My nose]] was to blame; it was the reason I kept getting cast as the Heavy. So I went to a plastic surgeon...the nose job didn't help. From then on I played bad guys with smaller noses.''
-->--'''Creator/JoePantoliano''', ''Asylum''

->Everyone has their thing they have to get around. With me, it's like okay, how can I make ''this'' [[EvilBrit upper class bad guy in the 19th century]] different and interesting?
-->-- '''Creator/RufusSewell''' on his "[[ClassyCravat cravat]]" roles

->"An actor can be anybody, but once you find a niche for yourself it becomes difficult to break out, difficult to convince people that I'm also capable of playing a husband or a lawyer or a postman or a priest or a family man or a nice guy without [[CowboyCop a cop attitude]]."
-->-- '''Creator/DennisFranz'''

->'''Paul F. Verhoeven:''' You're playing Max Lord, who is sort of like a troubled kind of dad, I would say, if you boil it down, and Series/TheMandalorian is also a kind of troubled father figure. Are you afraid you're gonna get typecast as, like, "Unusual Dad"?\\
'''Creator/PedroPascal:''' I've totally moved into "daddy", haven't I?\\
'''Paul F. Verhoeven:''' You have, yeah.\\
'''Pedro Pascal:''' ''(laughs)'' I'll take it. It's time.\\
'''Paul F. Verhoeven:''' Yeah.
-->--'''[[https://twitter.com/paulverhoeven/status/1338982529919946752 This interview]]''', promoting ''Film/WonderWoman1984''

->''I don't want to be the next Creator/CliveDunn and end up playing the same character for years''.
-->--'''Creator/DermotMorgan''' on ending ''Series/FatherTed''
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