Quotes By Frank Langella

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

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

My body of work means nothing to me.

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

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

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

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

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

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.

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

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

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

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

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

There is no right in acting.

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.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm hardly a saint.