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
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.
A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.
But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.
As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.
And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.
My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.
I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.
I'd always felt a man should marry later in life
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill