Our favorite quotes from the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nominees for 2018

Los Angeles — Just because you are not the lead actor does not mean your role is not important. Most of the time, supporting roles are the meatier ones, the more memorable ones or the more difficult parts to play.

As such, we would like to pay tribute to the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor nominees for 2018.

Here are some of our favorite quotes from them:

1. Willem Dafoe (“The Florida Project”)

All photos courtesy of Janet Susan R. Nepales

On the kind of kid he was: Listen, I came from a big family. So, when you come from a big family you have to learn how to cooperate with everyone, particularly when you’re one of the younger ones and you have two brothers who’ll beat you up if you don’t cooperate with them, and five sisters. You learn cooperation but at the same time, because both my parents worked, I was very free. So I had a little Huck Finn in me, I was able to go out and create mischief.  Growing up in a conservative paper mill town in Wisconsin in the 1950s, you have a sense that there was a bigger world out there. I was always trying to find that. So I guess I was a little mischievous but nothing crazy.

On his relationship to poverty: My parents, my mother was a nurse, my father was a surgeon and a very well educated one who could’ve had a Park Avenue Practice. But I suppose he was a little bit of a country boy so he went back to where he was from, Wisconsin and worked in this quite small town of 50,000 people.

In that town, there was some poverty but when you’re a kid, I probably didn’t connect with it as much. It probably scared me more because in the 1950’s Eisenhower era you’d look at those people and there was such a sense of upward mobility. You had parents who grew up in the depression, who pointed at those people and say, if you don’t work hard and if you don’t mind yourself, this is where you’re going. So I grew up with that heaviness.

I was straight, God-fearing and a pretty straight kid. On one hand because of that fear, but also I knew that was an untrue equation. I somehow knew that that was me too. So I identified with that a little bit. I grew older and I wanted to become an actor.

I didn’t have any money then, and then I was poor as a young actor. Even working as a young actor in the theater for many years, I was poor and living in bad neighborhoods. That opened me up. There was a big shift politically and my sense of what my relationship was to other people. Rebellious side? Yeah. Because a big family. You’ve got to find your identity, you’ve got to punch your way out a little bit.

Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name”)

On the kind of parent he is: I am like the father in the movie who you are calling radical. All the father is saying is, I love you, I support you, you should support yourself and you should love yourself and you should do what you want to do.  If that is a radical position for a father then call me a radical.

My conversations with my kids are all special.  Every moment that you get with your kids where they look at you and they say daddy and they give you a big hug, it’s just really nice.  More than that, it just feels like why it’s why I am here.  Kids are the greatest thing in the world.  There are so many great specific moments, but I don’t want to get too personal about my kids.  I also want to give them the option of not growing in any way that they don’t want to and if that involves them not being in the public eye or whatever.  But they are the cutest.

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Richard Jenkins (“The Shape of Water”)

On whether he has come across cruelty in his life: I’ve actually found myself making choices in my life to avoid cruelty. And that’s really too bad. That’s a weird, strange way to live your life. But I’ve done that. And I continue to do that. I don’t like that. I don’t like it about myself. First of all, you can’t do it. But if you’ve been hurt in the past you tend to make careful choices that you think may keep you away from some kind of cruelty.

On his relationship to water: I love the water. I feel at home in the water. I had to do a stunt once, a couple of years ago in a series, “Berlin Station”, where I had a nightmare and I was drowning in my office that was filled with water. I had to swim. It was ten feet of water. I had to try to get out of the ceiling. I couldn’t get out. The door was locked. I should have been terrified but I wasn’t. It was like being at home. I love the water.

Christopher Plummer (“All the Money in the World”)

On the biggest challenge of his career: This was not the biggest challenge of my career. I think King Lear and a few other parts demanded a bit more but I think because it was so impossible and so short a period of time it did help me. There's no point in being nervous. There's no time so the thing I was worried about was that he never stops talking. It's one monologue after another and I was very nervous about the memory. Cool. I didn't have any problem with it thank God and that's because of my theater training.

On his reaction when Ridley Scott called him to replace Kevin Spacey: I've always wanted to work with Ridley and there were two chances I had and he didn't hire me. Now at last came the call in the most strange way and I was thrilled.  I said yes, God, I don't even have to read the script. I'd love to come and do something with you and then I read the script. He sent me the script and overnight I thought it was quite interestingly written and an interesting role so I jumped at it with great glee.

Like all really sort of selfish actors I didn't think about it at all. I thought how nice.  That's great. I'll jump in any time.

On how he keeps his energy at 88: I have a terrific, talented wife who cooks the most marvelous, well-balanced meals and I live in the country. That's what keeps me hopefully young.

Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)

On his relationship with his own mother: I’m not a mamma’s boy but my mother and I have a cool relationship. She’s a painter. She was an actress, and I actually acted with her when I was a little kid. I learned a lot from her. She’s very talented. She’s a character, not unlike Sandy Martin who plays my mother in the movie. My mom’s pretty cool. She’s out there. She’s cool, fun and supportive of my career.

On how he disappears in his roles: I just put it together like a house, or like a soup. Throw in some garlic.

My mother was a mercurial actor. She was very much like that. She would put on lots of funny noses and make-up and kind of the Lawrence Olivier approach of a funny hat or disguises. I think that that’s the initial thing that’s fun. Then it becomes more complicated than that. You go study and you learn how to get inside the character and all that stuff. But I think initially there’s a morphing, clay thing that’s fun to it. — LA, GMA News

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