Frank Langella
Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella, Jr.is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards, two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon and for his role as André in The Father and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the role of Leslie in Edward Albee's Seascape and for his role as Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Additionally, Langella has won two Obie...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 January 1938
CityBayonne, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."
The last few years have been pretty hectic.
There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
It's a living, breathing thing, acting
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
You can only lead by example.
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
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.
However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
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.
I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.
I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.