Small Parts Quotes - Page 4

• I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

  Anne Hathaway

  Long, Sound, Actors

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.

  Sander Levin

  Has Beens

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• I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because theyre the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. Im responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Vision, Directors, Responsible

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• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, True Or False

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Pride, Train Of Thought, Track

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press

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• Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.

  Dodie Smith

  Dog, Mean, Tails

  Dodie Smith (1989). “101 Dalmatians”, p.37, Penguin

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• Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

  Carl Sagan

  Perspective, Vision, Cosmos

  "Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Demand, Universal

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.358, Tara Publishing

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• I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.

  Daniel Stamm

  Giving, Documentaries, Kind

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.

  Kinky Friedman

  Determined, Problem, Solutions

  Kinky Friedman (2007). “You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Sunday, Church

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• An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Storm, Emotion, Whole

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• One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.

  Mike Tirico

  Senior, Sports, Couple

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• I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

  Zachary Levi

  Taken, Innocent, Childlike

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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• I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Art, Believe, Energy

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• Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Certain, Humans, Selection

  "Belief" Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. April, 2004.

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• My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

  Harvey Keitel

  Thinking, Advice, Actors

  "Moment Of Truth In 'Youth' Hits Home For Actor Harvey Keitel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 5, 2015.

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• I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Luxury, Preparation

  "John C Reilly: Confessions of a scene-stealer". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

  Gene Robinson

  Believe, Moving, Teaching

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Class, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

  Julia Stiles

  People, Important, Acting

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].

  Jay Ellis

  Years, Numbers, Knowing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

  George Harrison

  Play, Grace, Lord

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• Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it in a play, a sort of sci-fi play about morality in a virtual reality universe. Nothing to do with the book precisely, but it was a great play.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Book, Dark, Reality

  "Donald Trump May Be on Your Television, But Here’s What America Really Looks Like". Interview With Mark Murrmann, www.motherjones.com. February 25, 2017.

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