Frank Langella Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

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

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.

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.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.