In the leadership literature, the research on the influence of leader behaviors is a very important topic, which provides valuable theoretical bases and practical implications for organizations to improve the performance of employees, teams and organizations. However, most of the existing literature focuses on the influence of leader behaviors on employees, teams, and organizations, while limited attention is paid to their potential influence on leaders themselves. In recent years, some emerging studies have investigated the influence of leader behaviors on leaders themselves from an actor-centered perspective. These researches provide new theoretical insights for understanding the emergence and development of leader behaviors, and provide new practical implications for the training and development of leader behaviors. Based on this, this article sorts out the current researches on the influence of leader behaviors on leaders themselves, and clarifies the current ecology and future development trend. Specifically, according to two dimensions of the nature of leadership behavior (i.e., constructive or destructive leadership behavior) and types of impacts (i.e., positive or negative influence), this article divides researches on the influence of leader behaviors on themselves into four categories: (1) researches on the positive influence of constructive leadership on leaders; (2) researches on the negative influence of constructive leadership on leaders; (3) researches on the negative influence of destructive leadership on leaders; (4) researches on the positive influence of destructive leadership on leaders. Further, based on the above classification, this article systematically reviews the existing research literature on the influence of leader behaviors on leaders themselves, and integrates the underlying theoretical mechanisms. Finally, future research directions of this sub-field are proposed for the development of leadership from the actor-centered perspective.