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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.

Frank Langella

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Frank Langella
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 1
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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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The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
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A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
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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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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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And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
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It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting
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All of our health is basically genetics.
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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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If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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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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The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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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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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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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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