Frank Langella Quotes

• "Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct."
• "Acting as a noble profession."
• "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."
• "Dracula is the antithesis of kinky to me."
• "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 like struggling."
• "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."
• "I'm thrilled with the way that Skeletor turned out."
• "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."