Frank Langella quotes
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“One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.”
-- Frank LangellaSource : "Frank Langella - An Actor Matured". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, www.deseretnews.com. June 15, 1993.
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“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.”
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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.”
-- Frank LangellaSource : "Frank Gets Really Frank : Twenty-six years ago, as a vain young man, Frank Langella appeared in the first production at the Mark Taper Forum. Now, as busy as ever, he is happily embracing the new and differing roles maturity offers". Interview with Barbara Isenberg, articles.latimes.com. May 9, 1993.
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“Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.”
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“Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself”
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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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“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.”
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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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“If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill”
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“Physical qualities don't really matter much”
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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 grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.”
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“I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.”
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“Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.”
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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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“And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.”
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“As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.”
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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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“I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.”
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“The last few years have been pretty hectic.”
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“There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.”
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“The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.”
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“We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.”
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“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.”
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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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“Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.”
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“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”
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“I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance”
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“I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.”
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“The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love”
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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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“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.”
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“You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.”
-- Frank Langella
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