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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr
Success
You
Man
Director
Ladder
Press
Crude
True
Leading
Leading Man
Order
Them
Hollywood
Agent
Producer
Each
Star
Actor
Sleep
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul
Myself
Character
Man
Hero
Thought
Action
Character Actor
Never
Leading
Leading Man
Any
Being
Really
Action Hero
Actor
To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
Adam West
Funny
God
You
Man
Thank God
Three
Think
Leading
Leading Man
Got
Thank
Stooges
Movie
Play
If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.
Aditya Roy Kapur
Man
Money
See
Invested
Count
Wrong
Leading
Leading Man
Box
Box Office
Because
Office
Want
Process
Producers
Film
Numbers
I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
Andrew Lincoln
Man
Wife
Country
Whatever
Think
Too
Dramatic
Say
Status
Would
Leading
Leading Man
She
Always
Been
Little
Aware
My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.
Anupam Kher
Me
Man
First
Immediately
Someone
Leading
Leading Man
Knows
Hindi
Craft
Established
Which
Who
Film
Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
Ashton Kutcher
Family
Man
TV
TV Shows
Leading
Leading Man
Learned
Making
Lot
Being
Whether
Shows
Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.
Audrey Hepburn
Love
You
Man
Vice Versa
Other
Way
Bit
Carry
Feel
Leading
Leading Man
Beyond
Versa
Any
Going
Any Other Way
Love You
Vice
Little
Little Bit
Your
Actually
Portray
Set
I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
B. D. Wong
Character
Man
Character Actor
Run
More
Take
Knew
Leading
Leading Man
Always
Than
Wanted
Actor
When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.
Brad Pitt
Me
Man
First
Films
Guess
Way
Out
Slowly
Pushing
Leading
Leading Man
Became
Got
Were
Sitcoms
Curse
Wanted
Interest
Them
Hollywood
Then
Worked
Really
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
Brian J. White
Myself
Character
Man
Challenges
Decision
Challenge
Made
Same Thing
Mediums
Find
Embrace
Push
Leading
Leading Man
New
Read
Same
Want
Wanted
Again
Acting
Unique
Conscious
Thing
Conscious Decision
Started
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Bruce Boxleitner
Character
Man
Every
Think
Character Actor
Leading
Leading Man
Wants
Actor
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
Cesar Romero
Man
Leading
Leading Man
Supposed
Lady
Wooing
Either
Her
Competing
It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.
Christopher Reeve
Me
Man
School
Old
Too
Nine
Summer
Never
Had
Leading
Leading Man
Since
Until
Occurred
Been
Years
Stock
Theater
Acting
Professional
Plays
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay
Myself
Good
Great
Needs
Me
You
Man
Writing
Doubt
Else
Way
Great Fun
Tell
Kind
Pretend
Some
Someone
Sees
Leading
Leading Man
Piece
Make
Always
Get
Anyone
Anyone Else
Story
Whether
Fancied
Really
Fun
Connection
But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
Danny McBride
Great
You
Man
Spices
Own
Just Be
Every
Definitely
Would
Would-Be
Guy
My Own
More
Leading
Leading Man
Terms
Obviously
Sort
Yeah
Up
Role
Just
Want
Movie
Moving
Who
One of the things about having played a lot of villains is... I don't have the same experience of someone who maybe has been a leading man since they were 22 and therefore looks at certain things in a character to romanticize themselves. I actually very much embrace the bad stuff.
David Harbour
Character
Man
Experience
Has-Been
One Of The Things
Bad
Embrace
About
Someone
Having
Bad Stuff
Leading
Leading Man
Stuff
Since
Looks
Were
Been
Lot
Very
Same
Maybe
Themselves
Much
Certain
Certain Things
Who
Therefore
Villains
Actually
Things
Played
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
DeForest Kelley
Great
Man
Leading
Leading Man
Whatsoever
Next
Aspiration
Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
Donnie Yen
Man
Action
Every
Batman
Possesses
Spider-Man
Martial
Martial Arts
Leading
Leading Man
Look
Bourne
Identity
Arts
James
Movie
James Bond
Them
Hollywood
Skills
Action Movie
Bond
The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.
Douglas Booth
You
Man
First
Young
Seventeen
Eyebrows
Lead
Leading
Leading Man
Shaved
Looks
Boy
George
Off
Get
Far
Ever
Played
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
Edward Herrmann
Good
Character
Man
Matter
Character Actor
Take
Lead
Leading
Leading Man
Offered
Role
Good Actors
Really
Good Character
Fill
Actor
I haven't had a chance to play a quiet leading man in a while.
Eric McCormack
Man
Had
Leading
Leading Man
Quiet
While
Play
Chance
I know I may never emerge as a leading man.
Everett McGill
Man
Emerge
Never
Leading
Leading Man
Know
May
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Geoffrey Rush
Good
Character
You
Man
Diversity
Circles
Character Actor
Outer
Good Place
Gives
Never
Leading
Leading Man
Always
Been
Being
Place
Which
Company
Actor
I don't want to be defined as the Asian leading man. I want to be the leading man. Henry Golding.
Henry Golding
Man
Defined
Leading
Leading Man
Want
Asian
Henry
Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
Irrfan Khan
Man
Indian
Leading
Leading Man
Ready
Hollywood
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