Leading Lady Quotes

#1. Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

Julie Andrews

#2. Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

Kate Winslet

#3. There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.

Laura Benanti

#4. You can't always be a leading lady.

Lauren Bacall

#5. It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

Heather Graham

#6. Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Matthew Ashford

#7. I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

Becki Newton

#8. I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.

Marylouise Burke

#9. 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 Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

Lana Parrilla

#10. I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

Kathy Baker

#11. I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Cesar Romero

#12. When I was about 15 ... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams

#13. Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

Selma Blair

#14. Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.

Kim Cattrall

#15. As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

Maureen O'Hara

#16. I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.

Malin Akerman

#17. 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

#18. I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

#19. In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Roger Corman

#20. I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex.

Elena Roger

#21. When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

Maidie Norman

#22. When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

Elizabeth Banks

#23. I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

Beth Grant

#24. Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Idris Elba

#25. I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Joan Allen

#26. The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.

Edna Ferber

#27. My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

Mary Badham

#28. I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

Shirley Maclaine

#29. 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

#30. I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

Ashley Jensen

#31. Whatever love meant there was some version of it that I felt for Winter. And it didn't matter if he felt that for me or not or if it was real love or just my sadness about my dad that had turned into longing. Love, that elusive leading lady, plays too many parts to be typecast.

Francesca Lia Block

#32. I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

Robert Mitchum

#33. 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

#34. I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Melanie Lynskey

#35. If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

Michael Caine

#36. Human feelings are queer things
I am much happier
black-leading the stove's
making the beds and sweeping the floors at home, than I should be living like a fine lady anywhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

#37. With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

Elizabeth George

#38. A crazy old lady, leading a band of teenagers against an angry supernatural Entity - who'da thought?

Diane M. Haynes