Leading Ladies Quotes

• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.

  Laraine Day

  Christian, Men, People

  "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

  Candice Patton

  Girl, Black, Honor

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Maud Adams

  Firsts, Made, Courses

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• 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

  Character, Stuff, Tvs

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Once Upon A Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Competing, Supposed To Be

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• 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

  Said, Worst, Please

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• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Mean, Night, Play

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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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• How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

  Steve Carell

  Beautiful, People, Kind

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• 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

  Song, Albums, Ifs

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• So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

  Tippi Hedren

  Thinking, Want, Common

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• A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

  Diane Kruger

  Directors, Sexuality, Turns

  Interview With Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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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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• Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  Kate Burton

  Mother, Daughter, Queens

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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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