Leading Lady Quotes

Maybe because All About Steve is about offbeat people, viewers don't want them to be heroes. There is something archetypal in us that we like a leading lady, we like a leading man, and we like people with my features to get killed. Maybe that's why the reviews were so severe - because good Lord, I've seen much worse films!

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.

Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

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.

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.

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.

I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

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

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

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.

I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

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

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.

I was afraid that my success would be dependent partially upon my body, and it's true I can't be 20 pounds heavier and play the leading lady. But I'm on the smaller end of an average-sized woman. I'm positive of this, mathematically. And I still get to play the lead, without having to be anorexic like so many of my peers.

I have tried girl-next-door. I have done the role of a corporate woman. A love story is something that I would like to work on.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Acting in a heroine-oriented film is a tough job.

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

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.

I knew I was going to be in 'Spectre,' but I didn't realize I was a 'Bond girl' until they announced it.

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit