A Quote by Cassandra Clare

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

Cassandra Clare

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Actors Even Less Many Parts Substantive White

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Cassandra Clare
American - Author
Born: July 27, 1973

It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.

Albert Finney

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

J. August Richards

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

Isabel Wilkerson

From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.

Gemma Chan

I had a niche. And my niche was that I was brown. So it's like, 'Great, I get to go up for all these 'brown parts.'' I call them 'brown parts' because that's what they are. That's not to be resentful, because I loved playing those parts - I got to meet so many cool actors.

Kayvan Novak

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

Edward Zwick

The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.

Franck Khalfoun

The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors that have had to hide their sexuality to get the parts they want to play.

Stephanie Beatriz

If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.

Tom Hollander

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

Christopher Buckley

You have actors you've worked with previously, and you have actors you haven't worked with that you've seen in things where you know they can work in these parts. And then there are actors who blow you away, who surprise you.

Jeff Nichols

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

Robert Webb

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.