# Actors or actresses you only like in one role only and dislike everything else they've done.

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**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")\
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Nothing else he’s done has impressed me, and those endless eSurance commercials make me dive for the Mute button, but I **loved** Dennis Quaid as Gordo Cooper in _The Right Stuff._

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**Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-or-actresses-you-only-like-in-one-role-only-and-dislike-everything-else-theyve-done/832832/102 "2019-04-27T06:00:23Z")

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> [@Hampshire](#):
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> 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.

You didn’t like Grease? Urban Cowboy? Phenomenon? Look Who’s Talking? Get Shorty? Swordfish?

He’s done a lot of crap but it wasn’t all shit.

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