# Actors or actresses you only like in one role only and dislike everything else they've done. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832 "2019-04-20T23:50:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/1 "2019-04-20T23:50:30Z")
Title is pretty much self explanatory. Ted Danson. I liked him as Sam Malone on Cheers and watched him for years. Anything else he’s done over the years I dislike. I don’t care for him acting at all. John Travolta. I was never into his Vinnie Barbarino character or his Saturday Night Fever phase. The only thing I liked him in was Pulp Fiction. Everything after that was abysmal. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/2 "2019-04-20T23:56:13Z")
Nick Cage is only good in Raising Arizona. Ok, and Leaving Las Vegas. Hate his guts in everything else. ---
**Author:** ![Garak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Garak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garak)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/3 "2019-04-20T23:57:20Z")
I usually don’t like Stallone but I like the first Rocky and Rambo movies ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/4 "2019-04-21T00:16:54Z")
I don’t like Stallone either, but I thought he was a hoot in Demolition Man. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/5 "2019-04-21T00:32:14Z")
I like Sacha Baron Cohen when he’s playing French characters in period pieces ( **Hugo, Les Miserables** ) and hate him in everything else. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/6 "2019-04-21T00:56:45Z")
Jim Carrey is pretty good when he does drama. He’s terrible when he does comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/7 "2019-04-21T00:57:52Z")
It’s not a matter of my hating him in everything else, but I don’t think that Timothy Bottoms was very interesting except _The Last Picture Show_, a great film. This was the second movie that he was in. He was O.K. in the first movie he was in, _Johnny Got His Gun_, and the fifth movie he was in, _The Paper Chase_. The rest of his career has been in obscure films and T.V. shows which I mostly haven’t seen. Later in his career someone noticed that he looked like George W. Bush, so he played him a couple of times. Most of my favorite films have little to do with a favorite actor being in them. It’s just that the lead (and sometimes the other actors) are exactly right for that role. For instance, I can’t imagine that Roddy Piper was particularly good in his other films, but he was so well cast in _They Live_ that it’s a great film. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/8 "2019-04-21T00:59:15Z")
I thought Seth Rogan was brilliant in **Knocked Up** ; don’t much care for him in anything else. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/9 "2019-04-21T01:06:16Z")
Emilia Clarke ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/10 "2019-04-21T01:28:23Z")
Marky Mark in Boogie Nights. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/11 "2019-04-21T01:41:15Z")
Peter Facinelli was excellent in **Fastlane**. I haven’t liked him in anything else. The **Fantastic Beasts** movies are the only role I’ve ever seen Eddie Redmayne play that didn’t make me roll my eyes over his smugness. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/12 "2019-04-21T01:48:34Z")
In 1986, Jerry O’Connell played Vern in **Stand By Me**. He should have quit the business, one and done, on a high note. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/13 "2019-04-21T01:49:27Z")
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds. Everything else has left me cold. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/14 "2019-04-21T02:20:07Z")
Will Ferrel in _Elf_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/15 "2019-04-21T03:01:22Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Emilia Clarke Which role? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/16 "2019-04-21T03:17:24Z")
Will Ferrell in _Stranger Than Fiction_, and I suppose, in a similar vein, _Everything Must Go_. Any of his other movies you would have to pay me to get me to see them again. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/17 "2019-04-21T04:03:41Z")
I’ve seen Ted Danson in relatively few things, actually (_Cheers_, the _3 Men and a Baby_ franchise, _Made in America_), but I haven’t really cared for his persona in anything in except _The Good Place_. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/18 "2019-04-21T06:25:47Z")
Chris Tucker in **Silver Linings Playbook**. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/19 "2019-04-21T11:18:05Z")
Kevin Kline in _Dave_. Everything else, meh. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/20 "2019-04-21T12:31:34Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jim Carrey is pretty good when he does drama. > > He’s terrible when he does comedy. Yep. Watching him do comedy feels like watching someone have a manic breakdown. But I loved him in the Truman Show and he was pretty good in Eternal Sunshine. And now he’s an anti-Vaxxer with some other very odd beliefs, which also puts me off him. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832.md?page=2)