Always Quote by Holly Hunter

I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone…

— Lena Waithe

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

— Kurt Loder

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at…

— David Chase

The leads are often the boring part.

— Peter Dinklage

It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery…

— Erica Durance

The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who…

— Pilou Asbaek

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are…

— John C. Reilly

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

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character…

— Harvey Fierstein