top of page
"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Acting quotes

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
Explore more quotes by Frank Langella

"I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day."

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

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

"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."

"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."
bottom of page