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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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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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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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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 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.
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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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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
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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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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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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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It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.
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