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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.
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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Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
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However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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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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The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
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I always choose to do the thing that scares me.
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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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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
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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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When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, The courage to be hated.
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A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
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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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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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One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
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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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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 have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play 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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The last few years have been pretty hectic.
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