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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

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

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

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

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

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You can only lead by example.

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 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.

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

All of our health is basically genetics.

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

My body of work means nothing to me

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

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

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

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.

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

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

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.

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