Words matter. These are the best Supporting Role Quotes from famous people such as J. R. Ramirez, Leelee Sobieski, Stieg Larsson, Beanie Feldstein, Baron Vaughn, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I actually have a movie that I was a supporting role in that I’m really proud of called ‘Sun Dogs.’
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.
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.
My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.
With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see myself as a supporting role, a walk-on role that has five lines. I say, ‘Mr. President, the Russians are here.’ That’s how I see myself.
I don’t care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don’t have to be a lead.
I think typically you’d start in a supporting role or an ensemble role, or maybe even an off-Broadway role. So to come into a lead role on Broadway, especially taking over a role that has been played by two phenomenal actors in the past, that is some large shoes to fill.
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.
If you’re playing a lead, you’re shaping the movie. When you’re playing a supporting role, you’ve got only a moment to make it count.
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American’s life when you realize the limitations, that you could only play maids or some little supporting role. Even Lena Horne couldn’t get good parts.
I got my first big paycheck for ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding.’ This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn’t happen like that anymore, but this was in the ’90s. It was the golden age!
I don’t think I’ve been in a supporting role in any of the plays I’ve done, ever.
A lot of people like to justify women’s supporting role in sports media by saying, ‘Well, they’ve never played the game, so they just aren’t qualified to speak about it.’
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
It’s nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it’s easy because generally it’s a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you’re in touch with people there. They’re widely popular, so they’re seen by many people.
Though I played a supporting role in ‘Lootera,’ I am mostly getting offers for leads.
In ‘The Grandmaster,’ I had a supporting role, but my character in ‘The Crossing’ is much more central to the plot.
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.
