Frank Langella Quotes
"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Acting, First)
"You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Acting)
"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Life, Day, Dying, Will)
"I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Faults, Self)
"I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs."
- Frank Langella
"I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could."
- Frank Langella
"I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Now, Want)
"Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Food, Blood, Help, Liquor, Needs)
"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Actors, Right, Trying)
"There is no right in acting."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Acting, Right)
"But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Love, Work, Order, Want)
"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."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Change, Life, Attention, Books, Man, Woman)
"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."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Fantasy, Paradise, Man, Woman)
"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Energy, Needs)
"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."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Work, People)
"However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself."
- Frank Langella
"It's a living, breathing thing, acting."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Acting, Living)
"The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft."
- Frank Langella
"There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Bed)
"Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist."
- Frank Langella
"The last few years have been pretty hectic."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself."
- Frank Langella
"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."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Cards, Career, Play)
"My body of work means nothing to me."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Work, Body, Nothing)
"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."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Man)
"Intelligence is enormously sexy."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Intelligence)
"If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Respect, Skill)
"I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Appearance)
"I'm hardly a saint."
- Frank Langella
"I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Honesty)
"I'd always felt a man should marry later in life."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Life, Man)
"Physical qualities don't really matter much."
- Frank Langella
"But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed."
- Frank Langella
"Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct."
- Frank Langella
"As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Fact, Play)
"But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Time, Comfort, Distrust, Water)
"One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage."
- Frank Langella
(Related: World)
"And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Actor)