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Frank Langella Biography

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) 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 Awards.

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Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

Attention, Book, Change, Life Changing, Mans, Written

Physical qualities don't really matter much

Matter, Physical, Qualities, Quality

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

Bed, Taboo, Taboos

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Actor, Kings, Lear, Played, Roles, Three

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

Interesting, Knowing, Men, Neck, Sustenance

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

Crown, Crowns, Face, Faces, My Own, Wearing

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets. " It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

Dodging, Friend, Good Friend, Good Life, Gun, Moving

Where you are is where it's at. . . . Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.

Give, Giving, Giving Up, Where You Are

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

Against, Pitting, Revelations, Thick, Thick Of It

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.

Cards, Cards You'Re Dealt, Careers, Map, Play, Table

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Actor, Communicate, Man, Men, Showiness, Trying

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.

Begin, Fact, Mean, Part, Wish, Years

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.

Cancer, Children, Fighting, Like, Live

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

Husband, Kind, Person, Sex, Wife

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

Four, Hot, Pianist, Three

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Everybody, Grew, Grew Up, Home, Household, Lungs

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.

Choose, Scare, Scares, Thing

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Mean, Playing, Suggest

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

Acting, Basic, Breath, Energy, Lines, Long

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

Fact, Facts, Matter, Play

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