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  • I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. -- Patrick Swayze
  • The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. -- Joe Pantoliano
  • The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner. -- Mary Tyler Moore
  • I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be. -- Tim Curry
  • I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. -- Robin Williams
  • The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man. -- Leigh Steinberg
  • Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
  • I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. -- David Alan Grier
  • Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. -- Jeremy Renner
  • I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one. -- Jamie Kennedy
  • I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her. -- Cesar Romero
  • In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. -- Wallace Shawn
  • I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. -- Patrick Stewart
  • As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams. -- Phil Hartman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 chops down in front of the leading man. -- Juliet Stevenson
  • I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday. -- Isaac Mizrahi
  • 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 each of them in that order. Crude, but true. -- Hedy Lamarr
  • It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too. -- Christopher Reeve
  • I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names. -- Paulette Goddard
  • 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. -- Edward Herrmann
  • When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man. -- Brad Pitt
  • In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. -- John Corbett
  • I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop. -- Aaron Douglas
  • 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. -- Kevin Hart
  • I'm not a leading man. -- Aaron Paul
  • I always wanted to be a leading man! -- Randy Jackson
  • Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man. -- Irrfan Khan
  • I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend. -- David Janssen
  • I was initially a leading man, but only on television. -- Gary Cole
  • Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure. -- James McAvoy
  • For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man. -- Dave Bautista
  • A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. -- Lorna Luft
  • I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. -- Val Kilmer
  • I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body. -- James Van Der Beek
  • Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have. -- Dave Ramsey
  • I want to be the leading man in a story about followers. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. -- Stewart Granger
  • I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. -- DeForest Kelley
  • I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material. -- Randeep Hooda
  • Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out. -- Richard Chamberlain
  • I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. -- Burgess Meredith
  • I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. -- John Travolta
  • The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth. -- Saint Augustine
  • The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves. -- Malcolm McDowell
  • I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little. -- James Cromwell
  • At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not. -- Larry Hovis
  • Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did. -- Claire Trevor
  • I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. -- Dave Bautista
  • Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. -- John Cleese
  • I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one. -- Brion James
  • I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. -- Malcolm Gets
  • The audience falls in love with a leading man because he'll never belong to any of them. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. -- Rafe Spall
  • I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things. -- Corey Sevier
  • I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. -- Clint Eastwood
  • I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh. -- Andrew Rannells
  • Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen. -- Steve Carell
  • Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason. -- Pythagoras
  • Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie. -- Kevin Hart
  • Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter. -- Shemar Moore
  • I want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man. -- Scott Eastwood
  • When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem. -- Martina Navratilova
  • Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. -- Sun Tzu
  • I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man. -- Bruce Boxleitner
  • The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • 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
  • I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldnt possibly be thought of as gay. -- Sean Maher
  • Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes. -- Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken
  • I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
  • Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes. -- Lou Diamond Phillips
  • I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
  • But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy. -- Robert Jastrow
  • The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer. -- John Jay Chapman
  • A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues. -- George Barr McCutcheon
  • The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man. -- Matt Bomer
  • I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • 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
  • I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things. I like playing people with a dark side. -- Corey Sevier
  • Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. -- Adam Smith
  • The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human. -- Carleton S. Coon
  • 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. -- Donnie Yen
  • It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things. -- Christopher Walken
  • 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 to get work. -- Josh Holloway
  • 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 would probably say. -- Andrew Lincoln
  • In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • 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. -- James Nesbitt
  • I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that. -- Chris Kattan
  • I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that -- Chris Kattan
  • I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin. -- Robert Shaw
  • Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney. -- Tommy Kirk
  • 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. -- Kevin Hart
  • 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 them, people know you do them. -- Peter Sarsgaard
  • The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get. -- Douglas Booth
  • I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them. -- Alexander Koch
  • I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. -- Geoffrey Rush
  • I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man. -- Toby Kebbell
  • 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 got to all gel together, you know what I mean? -- Mike Epps
  • I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box. -- Natalie Dormer
  • Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier. -- Chadwick Boseman
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