Top 1200 Small Roles Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

Doing comic roles is a great relief considering the power-packed roles that are usually offered to me.

I didn't think of my job as wanting roles I want to do but roles that suit me.

Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

I've done second leads in movies, I've done really small roles, too. Other actors never bother me, I believe I'm decent enough to make my own place.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

I try to do more intelligent roles, unusual roles, and stronger women, and that's helped me a little bit with my casting opportunities.

I think I found roles which weren't the roles I thought I'd be doing but they were the kind that brought me where I never imagined myself to be.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I think all the roles were something that sort of hit me, and I guess I was very lucky to get those roles.

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

Not all the roles that I've gotten were stereotypical, but in Korea, especially for TV, it's a bit limited for women in their twenties and thirties. There aren't enough female roles.

I would love to play more nerd roles, as well as action hero roles.

Most of my popular movies have seen me cast in serious roles. But then I am mostly offered such roles.

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.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

I don't mind doing glamorous roles, comic roles, weekly shows, or something different from what I've done earlier.

Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

The roles that I always get attracted to are roles where the material is based on an actual person.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

If I get to do only 10 roles, then I should be remembered for all the ten roles.

It feels great when you get to contribute in a show or a film in several ways. When you see lesser known actors coming in small roles and leaving an impact, you feel like they are your babies.

Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I was good in comedy so I started getting such roles but as an actor you don't like to do same type of roles.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.

We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?

Challenges are what inspire me. I therefore accept whatever comes my way, be it supporting roles or character roles.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I want to do different kinds of roles and work on good scripts because doing the same kind of roles is boring - both for me and the audience.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fellow souls on this incredible journey. We can fulfill the duties of our roles without being trapped by over-identifica tion with them.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years.

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.

At times, I have had the opportunity to play character roles in movies like 'Kathavasheshan.' Still, I act in all the roles I am offered if it has something special.

Audiences have taken a liking for supernatural and fantasy shows. The genre is doing well on the small screen, and I wanted to get into that mould. I have never played a naagin, and such roles have always intrigued me.

Roles that involved, whether it be training, whether it be physicality, getting skinny, there's some investment. There are roles that you do like that and sometimes there are roles that you do to make sure your family doesn't starve, but then you have to still say, "Is there something I can do with this? Can I do something with this that will be fair to the people watching it and fair to my time as well?" I'm at the point where that luxury of choice is getting more and more for me, absolutely, but it's more primarily roles that are more demanding of me in every way.

I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

In Tamil and Telugu films, I am not called for stylish roles and often play rustic or unglamorous roles in them.

I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

I always keep myself open to different roles because I believe by taking up a variety of roles, one's true potential is unearthed.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.

I love experimenting with roles and that's what keeps me hungry for versatile roles.

What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'

I want to be a three-dimensional actor, excelling in comedy, negative roles and even serious roles.

The more visibility, the more opportunities for Asian-American actors to play great roles. It goes to the studios opening up roles they might not have considered Asian actors for. The talent is there. I don't think there needs to be one superstar, but having more roles open up, that's the way changes happen.