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You can only lead by example.

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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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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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.
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As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
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I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
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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.
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance
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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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But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.
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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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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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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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My body of work means nothing to me
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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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There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
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And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
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A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
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Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.
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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 always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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Intelligence is enormously sexy.
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