Frank Langella Quotes
Frank A. Langella, Jr. is an American stage and film actor.
(1938 - )
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Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
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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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But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.
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But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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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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I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
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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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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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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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I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.
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I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
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I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
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I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
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