Background Character Quotes

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

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

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'

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.

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone."

I enjoy sometimes focusing on a character in a scene that's not actually doing the main action or the talking.

I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.