Frank Langella

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.

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

I'm hardly a saint.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

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

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

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.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.