Leading Ladies Quotes

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

  Matthew Ashford

  Mother, Daughter, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Years, Titles, Suits

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• We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

  William H. Macy

  Men, People, Common

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. Novemer 21, 2003.

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

  Elizabeth Banks

  Body, Prove

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• 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

  Sex, Character, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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

  Kate Winslet

  Sake, Supposed To Be

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• You can't always be a leading lady.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable

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• I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.

  Ramon Novarro

  Girl, Hero, Men

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• Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.

  Bruce Campbell

  Hurt, Worry, Guy

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Remember a few years ago when they left Bea Arthur out of the death reel at the Oscars? Bea Arthur! How did they leave Bea Arthur out? She was in Mame; she was in All in the Family; she was in Maude; she was a Golden Girl, for God's sake! Bea was not only one of Hollywood's leading ladies, she was one of Hollywood's leading men!

  Joan Rivers

  Girl, Men, Years

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• I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

  Winona Ryder

  Running, Careers, Mosquitoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a TNT show, because there were crimes that got solved, which [going] back five years ago, was a mandate. But there was something innovative about the mental illness side of it.

  Eric McCormack

  Years, Perception, Sides

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Memories, Kissing, Yale

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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

  Roger Corman

  Monsters, Fiction, Film

  Ed Naha, Roger Corman (1982). “The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget”

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• 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

  Blessed, Glamour, Applause

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive. For the director, that addiction will come from the love and trust he gets from the "orchestra", him being the conductor. That's why many directors fall in love with their leading lady/man: having someone say "how do you want me to be" is incredible.

  Matthew Jacobs

  Falling In Love, Men, Addiction

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• 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

  America, Tvs, Incredibles

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Looks, Faces

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Body

  "Sanaa Lathan Finds Her Way Back to Vera Stark". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. September 21, 2012.

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

  Melanie Lynskey

  Desire

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• The only good thing I could say about Dr. Vegas was that it was fun working with Amy Adams. I like to feel I picked somebody great as my leading lady and was borne out. Oh, and I learned how to snap on a medical glove very easily.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Vegas, Amy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's the fourth, but it's quite early - and the leading lady usually sits down on something; sometimes it's a tree stump in Brigadoon, sometimes it's under the pillars of Covent Garden in My Fair Lady, or it's a trash can in Little Shop of Horrors... but the leading lady sits down on something and sings about what she wants in life. And the audience falls in love with her and then roots for her to get it for the rest of the night.

  Howard Ashman

  Song, Falling In Love, Night

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• 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

  Feels

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

  Maureen O'Hara

  Hollywood, Comedic, 1960s

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