Supporting Actors Quotes

• I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

  Kevin Costner

  Actors, Helping, Being The Best

  "Why Kevin Costner Paid for ‘Black or White’ (New Trailer, Sneak Preview Q & A)". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 3, 2014.

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• If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  People, Waiting, Forever

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• I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

  Paul Giamatti

  Interesting, Actors, Persons

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

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• God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

  Michael Horton

  Purpose, Actors, Way

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• When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Robins, Roles

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• If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.

  Jason Flemyng

  Growing Up, Successful, Differences

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Clouds, Awards, Choices

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

  Robin Williams

  Independent, Age, Actors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats a lead.

  Donald Faison

  Actors, Want, Comedic

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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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• I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Stars, Actors, Wealthy

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

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• I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

  David Morse

  Talking, People, Actors

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• I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

  Charlie Rowe

  Nice, Awards, Actors

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• And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

  Michael Caine

  Ideas, Gone, Asking

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Awards, Actors

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Real, Kids, Awards

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• City lights shine bright on my complexion,
  Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
  Life is a green light, one star, no script,
  Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

  Action Bronson

  Stars, Rap, Reflection

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Men, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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