Latest Frank Langella Quotes from Interviews

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• Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Brain, Action

  Source: collider.com

• All of our health is basically genetics.

  Frank Langella

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Long, Acting, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

  Frank Langella

  Fall, Done, Easy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Writing, Acting, Energy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

  Frank Langella

  Good Life, Moving, Good Friend

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Age, Chosen

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

  Frank Langella

  Scare

  Source: www.esquire.com

• It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

  Frank Langella

  Men, Trying, Communicate

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Love Is, Thinking, Worthy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

  Frank Langella

  Kids, Feelings, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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, Son, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Mean, Years, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

  Frank Langella

  Kings, Three, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You can only lead by example.

  Frank Langella

  Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Climbing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

  Frank Langella

  Girl, Football, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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, Faces, My Own

  Source: www.pbs.org