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

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
- Frank Langella Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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.
- Frank Langella Quote

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.
- Frank Langella Quote

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
- Frank Langella Quote

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
- Frank Langella Quote

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

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.
- Frank Langella Quote

My body of work means nothing to me.
- Frank Langella Quote

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
- Frank Langella Quote

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

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

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
- Frank Langella Quote

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

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
- Frank Langella Quote

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.
- Frank Langella Quote

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
- Frank Langella Quote

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.
- Frank Langella Quote