Frank Langella Quotes

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

I am an actress, so my fans or the large audience should look at me as an actress on screen and love or hate me based on my performance.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

I like to perform. I hope I keep on getting good offers.

It's fun matching steps with younger actors. It gives me the confidence to keep going.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

Playing heroine was never an aspiration. If I had been particular about it, I would have faded out of the scene long ago.

I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more as an actor.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I think I'm probably more passionate about acting now than when I was a kid. When I was young, I didn't know what I was doing.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.