Quotes from Frank Langella

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

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

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

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

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

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

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

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

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My body of work means nothing to me

There is no right in acting.