I’m hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

Meaning of the quote

This quote means that the actor Frank Langella cares about how he looks, but not too much. He is interested in his appearance, but not completely obsessed with it. He likes to look good, but it's not the most important thing to him.

About Frank Langella

Frank Langella is an acclaimed American actor known for his stage and screen performances. He has received numerous accolades, including four Tony Awards, for his versatile and captivating portrayals of characters like Richard Nixon and Andru00e9. Langella’s career has spanned decades, with memorable roles in films like Dracula, Dave, and The Trial of the Chicago 7.

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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.

Frank Langella

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Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

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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.

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The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

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I’m a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Frank Langella

American actor

I’d always felt a man should marry later in life.

Frank Langella

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Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Frank Langella

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I’m hardly a saint.

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

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

Frank Langella

American actor

My body of work means nothing to me.

Frank Langella

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But I firmly believe that you can’t be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Frank Langella

American actor

However, I don’t by any means suggest that I’m always playing myself.

Frank Langella

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One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

Frank Langella

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We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Frank Langella

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I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

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

Frank Langella

American actor

I’m hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

Frank Langella

American actor

There is no right in acting.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

Frank Langella

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There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn’t be any taboos in bed.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

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

Frank Langella

American actor

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

Physical qualities don’t really matter much.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

Frank Langella

American actor

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

Frank Langella

American actor

It’s a living, breathing thing, acting.

Frank Langella

American actor

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Frank Langella

American actor