Frank Langella Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• I’m hardly a saint.

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• I’m a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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

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• I’m hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

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Frank Langella (40)

Birth:	1st January, 1938
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Frank A. Langella, Jr. was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. He is an American actor. He has won three Tony Awards, two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon and for the role of Leslie in Edward Albee's Seascape. He has won two Obie Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film production of Frost/Nixon. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama from Syracuse University in 1959. His role in several films include: Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Deadly Trap, Dracula, And God Created Woman, Dave, Lolita, Sweet November, All Good Things, Draft Day, Captain Fantastic, and Youth in Oregon.

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