If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you’ll never do anything good.
Meaning of the quote
If you refuse to take a job because you're worried that people will see you as only being able to do one type of character, you'll never get the chance to show how talented you really are. You have to be willing to take risks and try new things if you want to become a great actor.
About Colin Baker
Colin Baker is an English actor best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. He also had a role in the BBC drama series The Brothers. Despite some controversy during his tenure as the Doctor, Baker’s performances in audio plays have been well received by fans.
Tags
More quotes from Colin Baker
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you’ll never do anything good.
English actor
I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I’m being paid.
English actor
I do adore food. If I have any vice it’s eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
English actor
I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
English actor
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don’t mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
English actor
I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
English actor
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven’t done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
English actor
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father’s income was such that I wouldn’t have got a grant, and he wouldn’t let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
English actor