Frank Langella - Quotes
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I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty. ---->>>
Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself. ---->>>
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. ---->>>
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort. ---->>>
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself. ---->>>
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed. ---->>>
As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself. ---->>>
But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love. ---->>>
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me. ---->>>
I'd always felt a man should marry later in life. ---->>>
I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could. ---->>>
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right. ---->>>
I'm hardly a saint. ---->>>
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance. ---->>>
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. ---->>>
My body of work means nothing to me. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. ---->>>
But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed. ---->>>
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. ---->>>

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft. ---->>>
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist. ---->>>
We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
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. ---->>>
Biography
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) 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 the play Frost/Nixon and for his role as André in The Father and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the role of Leslie in Edward Albee's Seascape and for his role as Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (wikipedia)