Small Roles Quotes

• I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

  Rod Taylor

  Roles, Very Good, Turns

  "Rod Taylor, Star of 'The Birds' and 'The Time Machine,' Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

  Jay Asher

  Roles, May, Matter

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.13, Penguin

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• One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

  Woody Allen

  People, Interesting, Roles

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• Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'

  Naomi Watts

  Journey, Thinking, Play

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• I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Crazy, Thinking, Pie

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

  Bela Lugosi

  Hard Work, Years, Roles

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• It's exciting to look back at the work that I've done and not have a single regret about a job I've taken. I feel really proud of every film I've been a part of. Big or small role, I feel like it was the right choices.

  Ari Graynor

  Jobs, Regret, Taken

  "Exclusive: Ari Graynor Talks LUCKY, THE SITTER and WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

  Bai Ling

  Artist, Roles, Stones

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• I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I built my career up by doing small roles (which led) to principal roles and getting bumped into main character roles.

  Drew Waters

  Character, Careers, West

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Opposites, Degrees

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• My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Horse, War, Acting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Want, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a really small role (playing goddess Aphrodite), and I was only working for just over a week with Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. I'd done a few short films before and thought acting was really creative, but when I worked with those guys, I was just like: "Wow!" They had such fun and freedom. They were trying things and stretching themselves. It was so inspiring that I was like: "I definitely want to do this!"

  Agyness Deyn

  Fun, Creative, Guy

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• I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.

  Forest Whitaker

  Moving, Numbers, Roles

  "Forest Whitaker Interview: 'I Won't Play Crazy Again'". CineMovie Interview, cinemovie.tv. February 21, 2014.

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• There are shows, a lot of small cable shows like Breaking Bad, where in the general population nobody watches them really, but everybody in Los Angeles in the industry watches them, and to get a small role on a show like that actually, in some respects, advances your career more than having a huge hit role on a genre show because they are somehow dismissed as a secondary market in this industry

  Misha Collins

  Careers, Population, Watches

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• I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.

  Shelley Hennig

  Fun, Light, Age

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• All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

  Patty Duke

  Play, Roles, Ever After

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• I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  Kate Winslet

  Moving, Usa, Roles

  "Kate Winslet: Uncommon Sense". movieline.com. January 1, 1996.

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• So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

  Khandi Alexander

  Heart, Order, Careers

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• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Miranda Richardson

  Acting, Roles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As far as how important the real-life resonance of the stories is, I think it must play at least a small role in the show's success, because it gives the show this sense of suspense from the fact that it seems at least plausible.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Thinking, Play

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

  Michael Keaton

  Giants, Roles, Telling The Truth

  Source: collider.com

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• I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

  Alaina Huffman

  Girl, Play, Nurse

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• Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs of the poor. And the prices of rice, bread and beans play a small role in calculating PPPs even though they play a huge role in meeting the consumption needs of the poor. So the World Bank's method of comparing and converting everything at general purchasing power parities into US dollars is highly distorting within an exercise whose purpose it is to determine whether households are or are not capable of meeting their basic consumption needs.

  Thomas Pogge

  Exercise, Play, Car

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

  LeCrae

  Roles, Fiction, Stories

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