Frank Langella Quotes

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

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

- Frank Langella

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

- Frank Langella

I'm hardly a saint.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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.

- 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.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Frank Langella

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

- 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

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

- 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.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

- Frank Langella