Best Leading Man Quotes
79 Leading Man quotes by 74 unique authors
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
— Irrfan Khan
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
— Burgess Meredith
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
— Malcolm McDowell
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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
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I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
— John Noble
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I'm not a leading man.
— Aaron Paul
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I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
— Cesar Romero
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It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb…
— Juliet Stevenson
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I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing…
— Peter Sarsgaard
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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
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I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
— Bruce Boxleitner
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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard…
— Josh Holloway
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To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at…
— Josh Holloway
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I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.
— Brion James
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I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she…
— Andrew Lincoln
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years…
— John Travolta
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
— Randeep Hooda
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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people…
— Jamie Foxx
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I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
— Ryan Gosling
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Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's…
— Mike Epps
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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…
— John Hawkes
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
— Randy Jackson
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
— Val Kilmer
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Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
— Ashton Kutcher
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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…
— Hedy Lamarr
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