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
The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself. — Ruzwana Bashir
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress. — Carolyn Merchant
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it. — Pat Riley
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. — Michael Caine
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. — LeCrae
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. — Constantin Stanislavski
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role! — Wei Wu Wei
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. — Christopher Nolan
Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper. — Jimmy Smits
We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually — Gregg Popovich
It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head. — Tom Selleck
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. — Stephen Sondheim
Short Supporting Roles Quotes
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. — Scottie Pippen
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. — George P. Baker
One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role — Scottie Pippen
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh. — David Ogden Stiers
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. — Adam Arkin
Supporting Roles Image Quotes
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Supporting Actors Quotes
Get real. You are not the star of the movie. Most of what happens around you isn’t about you at all. There are infinite numbers of other movies. In those, if you feature at all, you’re just a supporting actor. It would really help your happiness if you started to look at your life that way. — Mo Gawdat
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
Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself. — Del Close
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around. — Michael Horton
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech. — Chris Pine
Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are called supporting and character actors. It's all the same kind of situation. — Sylvester Stallone
One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.
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
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
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
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control. — Jessica Valenti
Small Roles Quotes
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
In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world. — Morihei Ueshiba
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought. — Mark Goddard
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark. — Patti Smith
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down. — Ben Kingsley
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it. — Marcus Aurelius
See the light in others, and treat them as if thats all you see
All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after. — Patty Duke
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. — Bela Lugosi
To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older. — Dave Franco
Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide. — Lilian Katz
We must build a high-level socialist market economic system, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public ownership system, unswervingly encourage and support the development of the privately owned economy, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, and give better play to the role of the government. — Xi Jinping
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that. — Olivia Wilde
Love your haters,theyre your biggest fans.
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely. — Noam Chomsky
Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world? — Natalie Portman
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. — Elliot Page
Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism. — John Hope Bryant
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. — Leo Buscaglia
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role. — Sayings
Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today. — Judy Woodruff
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role. — Walt Disney
Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked — Bill Parcells
I would wager that my job has helped save our economy from the economic ravages of out-of-control environmental extremism. I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government. — Roy Spencer
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. — Joel Edgerton
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. — Gerald R. Ford
The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that plant operating under these conditions in the support role for wind will suffer: 1) reduced availability, 2) significantly reduced efficiency, and thus 3) higher emissions per MWh generated. — John Constable
The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience. — Holmes Rolston III
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
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. — David Rockefeller
I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy. — Albert Wynn
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
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity." — Michael Hudson
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
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement. — Angela Davis
The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth. — Lee Myung-bak
It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role. — Carey Mulligan
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
It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that. — Carrie Coon
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
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS. — Whoopi Goldberg
My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is. — Iyanla Vanzant
I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens. — Samuel L. Jackson
The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses. — Jack Welch
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad. — Roger Ebert
Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed. — Jeroen van der Veer
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
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
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
I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. — Princess of Wales Diana
Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession. — Pierre Pettigrew
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked. — Leelee Sobieski
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support. — Timothy Geithner
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