Main Role Quotes

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.

Being a fringe player is not the role I want.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

I will only do a Bollywood film if I am offered the main lead role.

I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in it, and never really had the guts to do it professionally. But one summer, a friend of mine was with an extras agency and asked me if I wanted to be an extra with him in a movie, and I was, like, "Sure." At lunch, the writer came up to me and asked me to audition for a role. I got it, and it sort of snowballed from there.

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'm trying to think - what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think of another job that I'd rather do.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

I don't want to be a bit-part player, I want to be right in the mix with everybody else.

I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.