Frank Langella Quotes

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

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.

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

Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

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

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.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can only lead by example.

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

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

My body of work means nothing to me

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.

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

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.

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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

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

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.

All of our health is basically genetics.

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.

There is no right in acting.

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

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

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

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

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

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

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

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

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

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

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

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