Top 78 Quotes About Small Parts
#1. God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.
Gottfried Leibniz
#2. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
Colin Baker
#3. Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.
Brian Tracy
#4. I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural' ... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.
Cory Monteith
#5. Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
#6. So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
Regina Spektor
#7. I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.
Robert Englund
#8. Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson
#9. I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.
Candy Darling
#10. 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
#11. I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.
Jerry Hall
#12. We scatter small parts of ourselves as we journey through life, pieces that are stored by others and about which we may have no memory.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#13. I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.
Noah Baumbach
#14. 'Arrested Development' is great; Mitch Hurwitz is great. Plus, it's the one show I've ever had where, on the small parts, he just let me cast people.
Allison Jones
#15. I'd like to be a working actor.It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.
Anne Hathaway
#16. My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.
Santiago Cabrera
#17. We are all part of the whole, child. Never forget this. Each of us has a part to play in the big scheme of things. Some play very small parts, while others bear heavier burdens. But if one piece is out of sync or missing, the hole it creates is both felt and seen.
Jackie Castle
#19. I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Jason Bateman
#20. I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#21. One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was "like calls to like," but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them.
Leigh Bardugo
#22. I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.
Freddie Highmore
#23. There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.
Joe Pantoliano
#24. I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
Heidi Klum
#25. The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#26. Life is a sum made up of small parts, Kacie. Some are good; some are bad. You and the girls are definitely one of the good. The best good there is and I'll fight like hell to keep you here.
Beth Ehemann
#27. It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.
Seth Meyers
#28. One woman couldn't change the world. She could just make small parts of it better.
Victoria Thompson
#29. It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
Brendan Gleeson
#31. Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.
Monica Bellucci
#32. You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
Amy Sedaris
#33. I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really ... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.
Robert Maillet
#34. Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.
Matthew Syed
#35. I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
Sally Kellerman
#36. A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.
Sangharakshita
#37. I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
#38. There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.
Frances O'Grady
#40. An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions.
Nhat Hanh
#41. You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.
Kathryn Davis
#42. I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
Zachary Levi
#43. Lindsey imagined him looking like a model in his business clothes, shopping for toilet parts for her. Perfect. What girl wouldn't want a smokin' hot guy associating her with toilet parts?
Tracy March
#44. For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Adam Smith
#45. I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.
Cath Crowley
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John Mihaljevic
#47. I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.
Iris Apfel
#48. They were roots, Michael realized. Every memory of Maria was a root she had put inside his body. Too many roots, he thought. If Michael left all that roots could come off, shattering him to pieces. There would be nothing, just small and useless parts.
Melinda Metz
#49. If you were searching. I also would have left a small indication that something so important, something so critical to your soul has disappeared. The sole reason a constellation exists is because it's a sum of its parts. To lose one of those parts ... it's painful and irreversible.
Katie McGarry
#50. I would advise young aspiring theater artists to do as many shows as possible. It doesn't matter if it's in the basement of a church, in school, or in community theater. Do them wherever you can; big parts or small, it doesn't matter.
Rob McClure
#51. The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
Pat Summitt
#52. There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#53. Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce
#54. I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.
Sigourney Weaver
#55. PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.
Ambrose Bierce
#56. I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.
David Levithan
#57. April. Henry passed the word into sounds so small their sense disappeared, as if he'd wandered into the wide spaces that separate the solid parts of the molecule.
Chad Harbach
#58. I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.
Bobby Cannavale
#59. My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
#61. I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
Sam Yagan
#62. How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life ... it is the only part.
Neale Donald Walsch
#63. I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
Alan Ladd
#64. Time is the very lens through which ye see
small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope
something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
C.S. Lewis
#65. It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
Frederick Douglass
#66. If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.
Hans Haacke
#67. There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
Sidney Lumet
#68. You know you really have to beware of gypsies in these parts," he said teasingly, dismounting from his horse ... Keirah gave him a small smile that she didn't quite feel. "Good thing I have the Gwarda here to protect me," she teased back.
Madison Thorne Grey
#69. I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
Patti Smith
#70. It's not the small of her back, her thighs, or her chest or eyes that matter most. It's the parts of her she's afraid to show that you should get to know.
J. Raymond
#71. They're important but we're ignoring a lot of other parts that are probably just as compliment-worthy and sexy because we're too busy complimenting firm pecs and thin waists and untarnished souls. Branch out a little, is all I'm saying. It couldn't hurt. I bet your small intestines are adorable.
Jenny Lawson
#72. After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
Felicity Kendal
#74. You see tools and parts and my arm shoved inside a small spacecraft, and you really have to ask what I'm doing?
John Scalzi
#75. Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us.
Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
Jack Kornfield
#76. Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.
Kinky Friedman
#77. They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#78. Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.
A.S. Neill
