Frank Langella Quotations

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

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

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

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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

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.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

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

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

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

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

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

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

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.

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

My body of work means nothing to me

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."

Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Physical qualities don't really matter much

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

There is no right in acting.

You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting

You can only lead by example.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.