Minor Role Quotes

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!

Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise."

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

I played a very small role in 'Attakathi.'

When I was a bit younger, I did this tiny role on 'The Musketeers,' and I had to stay dead.

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.

If I had my way, I would never do a leading role.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

A learning experience is the best way to sum up my first film credit. It's hard to break into the film industry, and it was a minor role but still my only shot at the movies while I was doing theater.

I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

I'm not a leading man.

I get cast a lot as the best friend or the assistant.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

My role on 'Silicon Valley' was so small that I didn't have a lot of influence anyway in the show. There are four guys who really write that show and run that show and then six or eight hanging out in a room kicking in a few bits.

To be honest, I don't have much to do in 'Hathyar.' I won't call it a pivotal role.