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The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Frank Langella

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Frank Langella
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 1
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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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.
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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.
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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.
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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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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.
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