Frank Langella Quotes

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm hardly a saint.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.