Frank Langella
Intelligence is enormously sexy.Collection: Intelligence
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.Collection: Home
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.
But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
My body of work means nothing to me.
The last few years have been pretty hectic.
Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.
And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
Physical qualities don't really matter much.
I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.
However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
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.
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
There is no right in acting.
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
It's a living, breathing thing, acting.
I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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.
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
I'm hardly a saint.
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
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.Collection: Long
I always choose to do the thing that scares me.Collection: Scare
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.Collection: Kids
You can only lead by example.Collection: Example
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 excitingCollection: Men
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.Collection: Thinking
I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying dayCollection: Dying
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Good Life
Getting old is not for sissies, kid.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Life Changing