FRANK LANGELLA

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

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

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

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.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

My body of work means nothing to me.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

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

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I'm hardly a saint.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

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

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

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.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

There is no right in acting.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.