Frank Langella - Quotes

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. ---->>>

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. ---->>>