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

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

- Abraham Lincoln

If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

- Aaron Sorkin

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

- Alan Alda

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

- Al Sharpton

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

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

- Alessandro Nivola

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

- Agnes Smedley

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.

- Ayman Odeh

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

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

- Al Sharpton

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

- Ambrose Bierce

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

- Alfred Molina

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

- Aaron Lazar

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

- Andrew Rannells

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

- Antony Beevor

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

- Ansel Elgort

I'm not a leading man.

- Aaron Paul

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

- A. J. Liebling

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

- Ashton Kutcher