Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.
Frank Langella

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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 a firm believer in absolute honesty.
Frank Langella

I'm hardly a saint.
Frank Langella

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
Frank Langella