Supporting Roles Quotes

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

  Robert Maillet

  Thinking, Roles, Wells

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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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