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Frank Langella
American
Actor
About the author
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Love
#Wife
#Sex
#Husband
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Acting
#First
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Acting
I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Life
#Will
#Day
#Dying
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Self
#Faults
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Want
#Now
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Food
#Needs
#Help
#Liquor
#Blood
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Right
#Trying
#Actors
There is no right in acting.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Right
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Love
#Work
#Order
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.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Life
#Man
#Woman
#Books
#Change
#Attention
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,
American
Actor
#Man
#Woman
#Fantasy
#Paradise
We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Needs
#Energy
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
It's a living, breathing thing, acting.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Living
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Bed
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
The last few years have been pretty hectic.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Years
#Pretty
Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Play
#Career
#Cards
My body of work means nothing to me.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Work
#Nothing
#Body
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,
American
Actor
#Man
Intelligence is enormously sexy.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Intelligence
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Respect
#Skill
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Appearance
I'm hardly a saint.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Honesty
I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Life
#Man
Physical qualities don't really matter much.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Play
#Fact
But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Time
#Comfort
#Water
#Distrust
One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#World
And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
Frank Langella,
American
Actor
#Actor