Frank Langella Quotes

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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

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

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

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

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

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

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

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

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

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.

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

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

You can only lead by example.

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

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

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

There is no right in acting.

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

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.

All of our health is basically genetics.

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.

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

My body of work means nothing to me

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