Leading Quotes

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

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.

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

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.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.

I'm not a leading man.

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.