Quotes About Roles

I have played lead roles, supporting roles and also miniscule roles in my career so far, and have never been image conscious.

Even when I was doing supporting roles, I always had this belief that one day the opportunity to play a lead would come my way.

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

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that's what the women have always done.

With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.

I do play a lot of supporting roles but I think I have the best fun as I have more choices.

There is an imperative need for the creator in every supporting actor to be able to perceive the gravity of these roles.

Though I played a supporting role in 'Lootera,' I am mostly getting offers for leads.

I don't believe in terminologies like 'lead role' or 'supporting role' or 'cameo role,' etc.

Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to look pretty, be discreet, do charitable good deeds, and - if married to princes or kings - be quietly supportive and, above all, fertile.

What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

The girlfriend roles that we are usually offered are nearly always just kind and supportive. So it is refreshing for women and for men to see something different.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

But now, I think I have found a corner, a groove of what kind of stories I want to be part of and what type of characters I want to play. I have a soft corner for damaged people or those who are not supposedly quintessentially perfect but have the instincts to be protective.

You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.

My imagination is rather limited, so it would be challenging to get roles that surprise me.