Top 540 Leading Quotes

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley… all these beautiful leading ladies and me – it’s kind of shocking.
Steve Carell
I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

I’ve been pretty lucky in the leading men department.
Cate Blanchett
Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Al Franken
You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.
Bradley Wiggins
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
Irrfan Khan
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.
Zoe Saldana
I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way.
Kathy Giusti
Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.
B. Kevin Turner
I want to make the music that’s not there anymore. I’m so passionate about the singing voice… What I’m trying to do actually with my album is show that it’s my voice that’s leading. It’s my voice that’s the instrument.
Sam Smith
I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there’s this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.
Mahershala Ali
Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.
Malvinder Mohan Singh
We must again carry the burden of our people and shoulder our commitment to leading them to the promised land.
Cyril Ramaphosa
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
Tom Vilsack
Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.
Michelle Obama
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father’s Day, and I want to get involved in that.
Steve Garvey
We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine – America’s a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf.
Scott Walker
By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.
Ed Davey
When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I’d expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.
Michael Douglas
When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn’t buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you’re leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn’t talk about. And that hasn’t always been easy for me.
Marianne Williamson
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
Mona Simpson
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
Gina Rinehart
Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama ’08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.
Gwen Ifill
The depth of John Candy’s talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Maureen O’Hara
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn Waugh
I always wanted to be a leading man!
Randy Jackson
You know, I find it so difficult being a… as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Werner Klemperer
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
Calamity Jane
There’s still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
Joely Richardson
Oh I had crushes on all my leading men, I think. Oh, you know who I really had fun with? In this movie ‘Mother, Jugs & Speed,’ I really liked working with Harvey Keitel.
Raquel Welch
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. ‘Can Helen Stop Smoking’ was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
William H. Macy
I’ve been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame
Kotter International is about leading large-scale chang

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.
John P. Kotter
I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn’t go for it.
Harry Dean Stanton
With Liquid Robotics’ innovative technology and Boeing’s leading intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions, we are helping our customers address maritime challenges in ways that make existing platforms smarter, missions safer, and operations more efficient.
Leanne Caret
A lot of things in my life changed, but I’m still a party animal. I’m leading the pack.
Brantley Gilbert
People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.
J. D. Vance
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
Louis Freeh
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
I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
Matthew Gray Gubler
My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
Fabiola Gianotti
The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
Eric Lefkofsky
Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I’ve been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I’m an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.
Danny Meyer
Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments – including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi – to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.
Ronnie Musgrove
Producer’s Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall
I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren’t unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.
Karen Salmansohn
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists – we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Vikram Patel
Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.
Caster Semenya
I’m always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don’t want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
Becki Newton
I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
John Travolta
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.
Benjamin Cohen
My hopes and aspirations haven’t changed since I started in this business. They’ve been to be able to play drama, to be able to play comedy, to be able to play leading men, and to be able to play character roles. I have no other aspirations in this regard.
Rob Lowe
I’ve always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I’ve been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them.
Sam Palladio