Frank Langella

“I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.”

“Physical qualities don't really matter much.”

“What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.”

“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.”

“I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.”

“But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.”

“And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.”

“I'm hardly a saint.”

“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.”

“The last few years have been pretty hectic.”

“There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.”

“I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.”

“One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.”

“There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.”

“If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.”

“We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.”

“My body of work means nothing to me.”

“I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.”

“Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.”

“However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.”