#leading man

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

#agent #crude #director #each #hollywood

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

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#because #brought #class #eyes #good

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

#been #had #i #leading #leading man

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

— Jeremy Renner

#besides #between #character #character actor #difference

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. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#disney #end #family #film #found

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

— Patrick Stewart

#archetypal #hair #i #i am #leading

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

— Gary Cole

#initially #leading #leading man #man #only

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#even #good #good looking #hollywood #i

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. ↗

— John Hawkes

#always #any #being #best #cliched