Frank Langella Quotes
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But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
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I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.
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I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
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We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
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But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
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There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance
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When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."
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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.
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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.
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At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.
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Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.
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The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
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There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.
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I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.
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Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
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But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
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Intelligence is enormously sexy.
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One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
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The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love
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A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
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It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.
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You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.
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When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.
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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
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I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.
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