Once you get into your 40s, you're no longer leading-lady age. Generally, those roles get offered to women in their 20s and… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good films and good performances will help you go further in your career. You can't get too far by just choosing leading… — Parineeti Chopra Copy Share Image
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. — Rena Sofer Copy Share Image
When I left 'Hamilton,' my goal was just to take on work that was more challenging, like, a leading lady, heavily featured… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny. — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30. — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady.… — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead,… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
I had a professor in graduate school who told us, 'Know what you're good at, and do that thing.' And I thought,… — Ruthie Ann Miles Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said,… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
After a while, Godard was going to do 'A Woman is a Woman' with Sami Frey and another actress in the leading… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie… — Ramon Novarro Copy Share Image
I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the… — Howard Ashman Copy Share Image
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake! — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue. — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her. — Cesar Romero Copy Share Image
In Bollywood they think if a leading lady can do one free-falling kick she's achieved the unthinkable. — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented,… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way. — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
![“I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton…” quote by Winona Ryder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/winona-ryder-1469_careers_i-was-very-obsessed-with-ruth-gordon-i-r_1896160.jpg)
