I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me. Frank Langella More Quotes by Frank Langella More Quotes From Frank Langella Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way. Frank Langella worthy love-is thinking If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. Frank Langella crafts lucky skills However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself. Frank Langella mean I'd always felt a man should marry later in life. Frank Langella marry-me later-in-life men At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me. Frank Langella chosen age Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. Frank Langella helping blood needs I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance Frank Langella disinterested appearance Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life. Frank Langella life-changing attention book The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love Frank Langella wife husband sex But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. Frank Langella eight pieces acting There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect. Frank Langella wrinkles secret brain Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in. Frank Langella where-you-are giving-up giving I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them. Frank Langella acting energy long There is no right in acting. Frank Langella acting I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write. Frank Langella acting energy writing It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before. Frank Langella done easy fall There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit. Frank Langella cancer fighting children I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown. Frank Langella crowns my-own faces You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this. Frank Langella strong men son There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that. Frank Langella wish mean years