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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994. -- Parker Posey
I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie. -- Alec Baldwin
My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity. -- Lisa Cholodenko
I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it. -- Vinny Guadagnino
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. -- Domenico Dolce
When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there. -- JJ Feild
To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well. -- Jai Courtney
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role. -- Salma Hayek
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked. -- Leelee Sobieski
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it. -- Kevin Richardson
My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it. -- Santiago Cabrera
My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue. -- Shahid Kapoor
Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real. -- Melanie Lynskey
By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up. -- Alexandra Shipp
The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. -- Paul Giamatti
My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11. -- Justin Chadwick
Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others. -- James Gobbo
My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire. -- Logan Lerman
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. -- lecrae
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 don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead. -- Tom Berenger
Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. -- Douglas Adams
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
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 still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections. -- Boman Irani
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I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. -- Michael Cera
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
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
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
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. -- Lee Haney
If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role. -- Matt Ross
People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role? -- Adel al-Jubeir
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role. -- Mark Indelicato
People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap -- Kirtida Gautam
I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series. -- Megan Lee
Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role. -- Sonia Braga
I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore. -- Madeline Zima

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