Explore Quotes by Frank Langella

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

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

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 now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

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

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

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.