Quotes of: Leading-role Keyword

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

Sofia Vergara

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

Malcolm Gets

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

Miranda Richardson

The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.

Nicholas Hoult

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Breckin Meyer

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All t...

Sam Shepard

M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

Lupita Nyong'o

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

Imelda Staunton

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

Henry W. Kendall

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

Andrew Rannells

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

Stephen Rea

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

Tom Berenger

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

The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

Edmund Hillary

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush