Quotes by Frank Langella

• The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
• But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
• You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
• I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
• I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
• I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.
• I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.
• I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
• There is no right in acting.
• But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.
• 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.
• 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.
• We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
• 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.
• However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
• It's a living, breathing thing, acting.
• The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• My body of work means nothing to me.
• 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.
• Intelligence is enormously sexy.
• If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
• I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
• I'm hardly a saint.
• I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
• I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
• Physical qualities don't really matter much.
• But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
• Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
• As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
• But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
• One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
• And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.