Typed Quotes

"If you`re going to be typed, there are worse moulds in which you can be cast."

(on whether he resented being typed as a "horror star") One always hears of actors complaining of being typed - if he`s young, he`s typed as a juvenile; if he`s handsome, he`s typed as a leading man. I was lucky. Whereas bootmakers have to spend millions to establish a trademark, I was handed a trademark free of charge. When an actor gets in a position to select his own roles, he`s in big trouble, for he never knows what he can do best. I`m sure I`d be damn good as little Lord Fauntleroy, but who would pay ten cents to see it?

You know, just because you`re a blonde type doesn`t mean you can`t suddenly do serious parts. I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous. I`m just hoping I don`t get typed for those creature movies - you know, "The Thing From Outer Sputnik" and so on.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella (1937), the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

I confused them so badly that they never took action on my petition. My conscientious objection wasn`t based on a history of religious affiliation, which made it difficult at the time. I went back to my philosophy training from college. I remembered Paul Tillich`s phrase, `If you have trouble with the word God, take whatever is central or most meaningful to your life and call that God.` I always had trouble with the notion of God in a stand-up form. So I developed a thesis and took the Biblical injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself as the central and most meaningful thing in my life. I combined it all and typed for days and sent it off and never heard a word. Never got called in. - On registering as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

Once I was working in a movie with Harry Carey and his wife Olive (Olive Carey), and I was complaining about being typed. "Duke," Ollie said, "look at Harry over there - would you like to see Harry Carey play any other way?". "Of course not," I said. "Well," Ollie said, "the American public doesn`t want to see you any other way, either. So wake up, Duke! Be what they want you to be." See, I`m not against Women`s Lib. Ollie gave me some real good advice.

I hope not! I don`t want to be -- I`ve done enough parts like that. I can`t say I won`t do more, but I really want to do a variety of roles. (on being typed as a sex symbol)

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

I`m constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

(In an interview with Hedda Hopper in 1957, about her attitude toward westerns) "Once you`re typed, you`re lost."

(Long) told us he was running for full term when we typed it in.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

After all, I had never typed the word butthole before in my life. It isn`t a word that comes up much in business correspondence.