Quotes About Leading

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

Today our "leading universities" are the locus of the most amazing brainwashing in leftist ideology and the most amazing violators of academic freedom and freedom of speech.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

I've said no to a lot of things because they didn't make me a leading man. They put me in a category I wasn't interested in.

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

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.

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

'Find Me' I think, is brooding in a very literal sense of the word in that you have all of these sort of interior storm that's growing within Joy over the course of the book and leading her to her moment. And certainly, I think there's an aspect of the supernatural.

Britain is committed to peace and security, and a leading supporter of the international rules-based system.

I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.

When I tell people that I get interviewed five or six times more than I will interview players or coaches leading up to the game that comes as a surprise. That's part of it and it just goes with being part of a Super Bowl broadcast team. I enjoy it.

The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.

The whole purpose of our search for a 'unit of selection' is to discover a suitable actor to play the leading role in our metaphors of purpose.

Muhammad had close links with three of the leading hanifs of Mecca. 'Ubaydallah ibn Jahsh was his cousin and Waraqah ibn Nawfal was a cousin of Khadijah: both these men became Christians.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

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.

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.