Top 540 Leading Quotes

Essentially, I’m a small-part actor who’s been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
Alec Guinness
Our clients value our independence as the leading partner of both the established providers and emerging players.
Pierre Nanterme
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
Harvey Mackay
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
Ben Kingsley
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leadi

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
Tim Holden
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids’ decision not to drink alcohol.
Xavier Becerra
I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I’m big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.
Matthew Lillard
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
I remember the cover of this one L’Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover – all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback.
Peter Heller
I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.
Sonu Nigam
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
Harland Williams
Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn’t look at me and go, ‘He’s a leading man.’
Nelsan Ellis
We’re leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
Lynn Jurich
The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There’s a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they’re like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.
Brian Cox
I think I’m a character actress in a leading lady’s body, but the industry doesn’t really see me that way.
Sanaa Lathan
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
David Amram
I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
Lee Grant
I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They’re all phenomenal talents.
Joel Grey
The royal family’s existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major’s rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They’re fine opening hospitals. It’s when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
Alastair Campbell
What to do with a leading business that’s challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single greatest example of recent memory is Apple’s willingness to decimate iPod sales by incorporating all the category-defining product’s features into a new gizmo, the iPhone.
Adam Lashinsky
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
Neal Boortz
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
If I was such a corporate Democrat, why would the California Nurses Association, one of the leading advocates for a single-payer system, endorse me?
Jimmy Gomez
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
Vik Muniz
There’s three things: there’s masculinity, there’s intelligence, there’s sensitivity. You’ve got to bring those three things to a leading man’s role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there’s a little too much in the mix of one or the other.
Alec Baldwin
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.
Seth Godin
I always knew I’d be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
B. D. Wong
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America’s leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.
Kimberly Bryant
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn’t have much of a voice.
Cab Calloway
The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor.
Jonathan Miles
According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.
Jonas Gahr Store
Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.
Charles Spurgeon
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've

I review books as a day job, and through the years I’ve come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.
Walter Kirn
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Bruce Boxleitner
Dubai’s world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn’t be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
Bob Graham
Indian higher education is completely regulated. It’s very difficult to start a private university. It’s very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India’s demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.
Nandan Nilekani
By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System… while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.
Murray Rothbard
Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.
Ahmed Zewail
One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.
Kenneth Fisher
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
Leonard Baskin
To play the leading man in a ‘Three Stooges’ movie, you’ve got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
Adam West
It’s quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It’s false and very treacherous teaching.
Bill Bennett
It really does help everyone when there are some big bands leading the charge.
M. Shadows
I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president’s campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president’s policy on leading foreign-policy issues.
Dennis Ross
When you’re leading Marines, you don’t screw around, so the comedy is limited in uniform. And when you’re a comedian, you can’t be heavy handed and come across with tales of gore or material that people won’t understand, so I try to keep them separate.
Rob Riggle
For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn’t even matter if you’re 25. That’s just the logistics.
Holly Hunter
Because I don’t like to play on a full stomach, I try to eat a bigger meal in the morning and less throughout the day leading up to the game.
Ali Krieger