Quotes By Frank Langella

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is no right in acting.

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'm hardly a saint.

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

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.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

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

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

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.

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