Frank Langella Quotes (40 Quotes)


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

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

    As an actor, you must be willing to display every element of yourself, so it would never occur to me to hide any part of myself.

    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.

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


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

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

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


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

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

    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.




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


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

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

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

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

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


    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.

    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.



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

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

    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.


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


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


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

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

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

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


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