When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!
Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
You can't always be a leading lady.