Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.
Quotes about hoodlum (3 Quotes)
There were many tough guys to play in the scripts that Warner kept assigning me. Each of my subsequent roles in the hoodlum genre offered the opportunity to inject something new, which I always tired to do. One could be funny, and the next one flat. Some roles were mean, and others were meaner.
The key is it has been an unrecognized and untargeted market, ... And Tyler is the one that made them realize, hello, there's a market out there and they're missing it. They are the market that leave church on Sunday mornings and don't have a place to go. There are Christian households that are looking for something wholesome to do on a Friday or Saturday night with their family. They want to go to a theatrical production that has concepts and themes that look like and represent who they are without having to be a prostitute or a hoodlum.