Supporting Roles Quotes

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

Robert Maillet

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

Frances McDormand

#5. Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband ... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

Kabir Bedi

#6. 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

#7. There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

Robin Weigert

#8. I feel so comfortable in an acting role, you know, as an actor. Maybe it's because I came into it late. If anything, I've felt frustrated that I can't carry a film because everything since 'District 9' has been supporting roles.

Sharlto Copley

#9. We don't have enough Latinos on TV just getting cast in supporting roles; the idea of having your own show named after you seemed like such a long shot.

Cristela Alonzo

#10. It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

Antje Traue

#11. 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

#12. NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

James Appathurai

#13. I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

Les Back

#14. No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

Roger Ebert

#15. Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

Paul Giamatti

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

Ricky Gervais

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.

Carey Mulligan

#21. Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help.

Jodi Picoult

#22. We can either choose to cling to starring roles in the little-bitty stories of us or opt to exchange our fleeting moment in the spotlight for a supporting role in the eternally beautiful epic that is the Story of God. I

Louie Giglio

#23. Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

Jeff Garlin

#24. He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his -

J.K. Rowling

#25. Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it's merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

Bill Parcells

#26. Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#27. Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Vincent Van Gogh

#28. I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role. And sometimes, it's not going to be a leading role. It's going to be a smaller, supporting role. So really, I'm open to doing anything.

Josh Hutcherson