Frank Langella Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

Actually I didn't expect to marry until I was into my 40's.

Also, Dracula deals with a character who's larger than life.

And I have a sense that today people are beginning to rediscover the joys of a relationship with one person.

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

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

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.

But Dracula represents just the opposite. He's pure sex, one-on-one sex, the kind of sex that most people in their heart of hearts really want.

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

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

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

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

Certainly in mortal lovemaking, kissing the neck, being close to the neck, kissing the ear are very exciting.

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

Even the mobs outside the theatre for Dracula never exuded anything but warmth and love.

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

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

I don't think that it's politically correct these days to say that women can be aggressive and manipulative and can misuse power - as a number of women are currently doing to the president.

I freely admit I have had very bad periods in my career, when I thought people maybe just didn't want what I have.

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

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

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

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 thought the play spoke profoundly - for a 100-year-old play - to the heart of men's fear of women.

I took great care in how Skeletor was perceived in this film.

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

I would save my money and take the bus in from Journal Square by myself-I would never tell anyone I was going-and just walk around and look at all the marquees on the theaters.

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

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

I'm hardly a saint.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm kind of past the point now where the only thing I want to do is act a good part.

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

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

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.

My body of work means nothing to me.

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

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

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

Sex and eternal life - they're an unbeatable combination.

So, I married earlier than I'd planned to - at 37. But I didn't marry until I wanted to.

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

The first thing I wanted to be was an opera singer; I was five then, and opera was playing in our house all the time.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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.

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

There is no right in acting.

There seems to be some life energy or force that happens to me when I'm on a stage.

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.

There's something truly concurrently exhilarating and terrifying about not resisting the change in you.

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.

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

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.