Lead Performance Quotes

I never had a great role in a great film.

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

If you go back and watch 'Saw,' I was very young. I'd never really done anything before.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

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.

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

If you have a meaty part to play, I don't see the harm in being part of multi-starrers. Moreover, I will be happy to be a part of a good film than playing lead roles in some bad films.

Somehow, I don't see myself doing a lead role.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I didn't think I'd be getting my own stand-alone film.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

'Leading man' just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

Every young actor wants this feeling of being the solo lead in a film.

Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.

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.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.