Quotes from Frank Langella

I'm hardly a saint.

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

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

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

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

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

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

All of our health is basically genetics.

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

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

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.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

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

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

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

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.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

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.

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

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

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.

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.