Quotes About Supporting Actors

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You need supporting actors to help to tell the story. For me, I'm lucky to be a part of the films. Being an actor, I'll take any role, whether it's supporting or leading.

Robert Maillet

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

Melissa Leo

#7. Simon went over to Jace and dropped the soup can into the cart. "So what was all that about?"
"I think," Jace said, "that she asked if she could touch my mango.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.

Martin O'Malley

#9. 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

#10. It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

Christopher Walken

#11. Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Nicholas Lea

#12. And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

Davy Jones

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

Michael Horton

#14. 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

#15. The subject I was best at in school was biology.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#16. I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.

Ricky Schroder

#17. 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

#18. In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

Wallace Shawn

#19. 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

#20. That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Jeri Ryan

#21. 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.