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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.

    Roles   Done   Feels  
    Source: collider.com
  • It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

    Character   Play   Roles  
    "Actress Sigourney Weaver Talks About Redefining The Leading Lady Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, wvik.org. January 8, 2017.
  • 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.

    Play   Want   Roles  
  • 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."

    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.
  • 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.

    School   Class   Long  
  • 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.

    Awards   Roles   Actors  
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.dailyjournal.net
  • 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.

    Winning   Oscars   Pay  
  • 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.

    Thinking   Years   Roles  
    Source: www.moviesonline.ca
  • Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

    Player   Giving   Roles  
  • 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?

    Play   People   Arabia  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • 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.

    Two   Roles   Lines  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Play   People  
  • I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead

    Stars   Roles   Care  
  • 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.

    Email   Roles   Actors  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Kings   Men   Good Man  
    "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,
  • It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

    Son   Play   Support  
    "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
  • It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

    Play   Roles   Easier  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

    "I long to be a good wife but can't find anyone to marry me" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.
  • I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

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

    Thinking   Roles   Wells  
  • 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.

    Play   Roles   Want  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

    "Roger Ebert's Video Companion". Book by Roger Ebert, 1998.
  • There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

    Comfort   Roles   Certain  
    "Sundance Interview: Concussion - Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2013.
  • 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.

    Source: lrmonline.com
  • Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  • There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

    Roles   Stories   Film  
    "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

  • 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.

    Guy   Actors   Done  
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