This collection holds 22 romantic lead quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage and Russell Tovey.

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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.

When you're a six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound dude, you're not the romantic lead.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

Man, I'm 6 foot 8. I'm gonna be typecast. It's not like I'm gonna be the romantic lead, although that wouldn't be bad.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.

I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.

I would love to play a romantic lead at some point. I would love to play the hero at some point. It would be fun to be in a huge franchise blockbuster based on a series of books, whether it's fantastical or science fiction.

I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.

I think I was quite difficult to cast when I was in my twenties because I never looked like Cameron Diaz. I'm not talking myself down, but I was never going to be the romantic lead in a Hollywood blockbuster. You need better cheekbones and longer legs.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

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