Quotes About Leading man

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

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

I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I'd rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

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.