Frank Langella
I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.Collection: Husband
It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.Collection: Men
There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.Collection: Wrinkles
Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.Collection: Giving Up
It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.Collection: Fall
I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.Collection: Writing
At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.Collection: Age
My body of work means nothing to meCollection: Mean
When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.Collection: Kings
I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.Collection: Crowns
A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.Collection: Girl
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."Collection: Acting
There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.Collection: Mean
You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.Collection: Strong
There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.Collection: Children
Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.Collection: Love Is
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearanceCollection: Appearance
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you loveCollection: Sex