Frank Langella Quotes

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

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

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.

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

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

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.

You can only lead by example.

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.

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

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

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

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

Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.