Top 1200 Leading Man Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I always wanted to be a leading man!
Now we have things that are obviously false, leading us to war, leading us to deny people health care, leading us to ignore the climate crisis. We have to restore the integrity of the democratic conversation.
I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.
I'm not a leading man. — © Aaron Paul
I'm not a leading man.
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
I don't have to be a leading scorer or be the man.
It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.
That leading-man expectation is, sadly, to have all these rippling muscles.
Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us that we like a leading lady, we like a leading man, and we like people with my features to get killed. Maybe that's why the reviews were so severe - because good Lord, I've seen much worse films!
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.
When they saddle the leading man with violence it makes the characters look weak. If a man is a heroic type he doesn't have to resort to violence. How many successful men in the world have to settle problems with their fists?
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. — © Lorna Luft
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
I know I may never emerge as a leading man.
I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.
I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.
The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.
In terms of playing like a straight leading man type thing, I feel like all these guys are kind of not necessarily leading men but straight kind of characters. Even though they may seem bizarre or strange, I feel like I think everybody's nuts. I mean, I really do. And the weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.
For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
I don't want to be defined as the Asian leading man. I want to be the leading man. Henry Golding.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.
I am capable of holding the quote-unquote 'title' of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
I'm not built like a leading man.
I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.
I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.
I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.
If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. — © Val Kilmer
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.
TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. — © DeForest Kelley
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
I'm a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body.
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
Playing villains is very liberating because unlike the leading man, nothing is expected of you. Leading men have to look good, they have to behave in a certain way, they have to fulfill an audience's expectations. But as a bad guy, you have free license to take the audience by surprise. And that's what audiences want - they want unpredictability from their villains. The villain's job is to subvert it.
Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.
The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.
I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.
I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.
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