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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

I'm hardly a saint.

- Frank Langella

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

- Frank Langella

My body of work means nothing to me.

- Frank Langella

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

- Frank Langella

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

- Frank Langella

There is no right in acting.

- Frank Langella

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

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

- Frank Langella

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

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