Leading Ladies Quotes

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

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

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.

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

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

You can't always be a leading lady.

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

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

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

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.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.