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

Frank Langella

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Frank Langella
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 1
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Stage Actor
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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.
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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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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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Intelligence is enormously sexy.
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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.
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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance
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It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.
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I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.
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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.
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There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.
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