A Quote by Frank Langella

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. — © Frank Langella
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.
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.
A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.
It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
The cards are bigger than you. You're not bigger than the cards. The cards are the best player at the table. So, let them come to you and don't force the issue. Pick your spots.
What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.
You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'
It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
I was born on the back foot and have to play with the cards I have been dealt.
I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.
In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.
You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand.
You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
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