Supporting Roles Quotes

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

  Walt Disney

  Stars, Roles, Theme Parks

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• There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

  Ricky Gervais

  Roles, Stories, Film

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Done, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

  Carey Mulligan

  Play, Roles, Easier

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

  Ving Rhames

  Character, Roles, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

  Thomas Jane

  Guy, Actors, Done

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• I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Roles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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 was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.

  Celia Imrie

  Girl, Sports, Boys

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• It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

  Frances McDormand

  Son, Play, Support

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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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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• 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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• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Competition, Roles, Festivals

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• It's a supporting role, and I relish the opportunity to take those relationships I've developed, the experiences I've developed, to carry the president's agenda to our nation's capital, to leaders there, but also to leaders in state capitals around America.

  Mike Pence

  Opportunity, America, Leader

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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