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Leading Lady Quotes

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

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.
- Joan Allen

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
- Julie Andrews

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
- Matthew Ashford

You can't always be a leading lady.
- Lauren Bacall

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.
- Elizabeth Banks

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.
- Selma Blair

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.
- Heather Graham

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
- Robert Mitchum

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.
- Cynthia Nixon

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
- Maureen Ohara

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
- Cesar Romero

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