Supporting Roles Quotes

• Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

  Walt Disney

  Stars, Roles, Theme Parks

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• I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role. And sometimes, it's not going to be a leading role. It's going to be a smaller, supporting role. So really, I'm open to doing anything.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Character, Roles, Want

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• There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

  Robin Weigert

  Comfort, Roles, Certain

  "Sundance Interview: Concussion - Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

  Robert Maillet

  Thinking, Roles, Wells

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• The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to diversify a bit. I don't wanna throw myself into another big blockbuster or another big franchise anytime soon. So smaller films, just small little interesting parts, I think I'd even like to play around with some really good supporting roles and then develop into - I don't know just like feel my way into it a bit more. I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Play, Interesting

  "Emma Watson Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Talks About College, New Clothing Line, Haircut, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And then, Ryan Murphy asked me to direct second unit for him on Eat Pray Love. I was already booked on something else, but I joined them later. And then, I wrote him a thank you email and I got no response. I was like, "Okay, that's it." We didn't interact much on set either.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Email, Roles, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

  John Cusack

  School, Class, Long

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• You have to listen to what someone is doing and help them get to where they want to go, musically speaking. I play a supporting role if someone else is soloing, and a guitarist will do the same for me while I am soloing.

  McCoy Tyner

  Play, Want, Roles

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• People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Play, People, Arabia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Play, Roles, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.

  Bun B

  Winning, Oscars, Pay

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• I try not to blame the public, because the public - men, especially - have seen not great portrayals of women in supporting roles, because they're not given the lead roles a lot of the time. Especially in comedy, they're relegated to the adversary, which is like "the mean girlfriend."

  Paul Feig

  Girlfriend, Mean, Men

  "Ghostbusters Director Paul Feig: It's "Hollywood's Fault" Female Leads Are Still Rare". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

  Betty Lynn

  Awards, Roles, Actors

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• It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Play, Roles

  "Actress Sigourney Weaver Talks About Redefining The Leading Lady Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, wvik.org. January 8, 2017.

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• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

  Steig Larsson

  Character, Two, People

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• Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

  Michael Pollan

  Hero, Believe, Acting

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Good Man

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

  Denholm Elliott

  Two, Roles, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead

  Tom Berenger

  Stars, Roles, Care

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• No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

  Roger Ebert

  Roles, Dean

  "Roger Ebert's Video Companion". Book by Roger Ebert, 1998.

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• Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  Neelie Kroes

  Europe, Play, Competition

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• When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Responsibility, Play, Volunteer

  "I long to be a good wife but can't find anyone to marry me" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Giving, Roles

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