Quotes of: Leading-man Keyword

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Jeremy Renner

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Hedy Lamarr

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Aaron Paul

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

Andrew Rannells

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

The Odyssey

Daniel Dravot: [admiring Roxanne, while a worried Peachy looks on] Just looking, Peachy. There's such a thing as admiring beauty for its own sake. Peachy Carnehan: [sharply] Being only human, one thing leads to another.

The Man Who Would Be King

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

Steve Martin

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Solomon Northrup

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Kevin Schmidt

I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Andrew Luck

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

Angela Carter

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

Chadwick Boseman

I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things.

Corey Sevier

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

John Cleese

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

John Travolta

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

Alessandro Nivola

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Patrick Stewart

Curiosity leads to knowledge. Knowledge leads to understanding. Understanding leads to love. Love leads to harmony. Be curious.

Sabina Nore

I know that you should eat a lot of the Indian spice turmeric, as it fights cancer. Also that you should avoid the Indian spice turmeric, as it might contain dangerous levels of lead. One or the other.

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster ...

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues