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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Your choices are very important. The only thing you have as actors are your choices: the option to say no to something. You don't want to take on a really bad job and be terrible in something - especially in film, because if you're bad in it, you're bad in it forever.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.