Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Langella

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Frank Langella.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Frank A. Langella Jr. is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon and as André in Florian Zeller's The Father, and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His reprisal of the Nixon role in the film production of Frost/Nixon earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

American - Actor | Born: January 1, 1940

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

Frank Langella

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

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

Frank Langella

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

Frank Langella

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

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

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I'm hardly a saint.

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

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

Frank Langella

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

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

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Intelligence is enormously sexy.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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My body of work means nothing to me.

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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

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There is no right in acting.

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

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

Frank Langella

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

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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.

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

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

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The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

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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.

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

Frank Langella

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

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.

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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

Frank Langella

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.

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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.

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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.

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My body of work means nothing to me

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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.

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

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You can only lead by example.

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

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All of our health is basically genetics.

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

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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.

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Langella

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