Frank Langella Quotes
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Quotes to Explore
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
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I want to do projects that speak to people, things that inspire change, and projects that help people grow and help me grow in the process.
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We've discussed democracy, we have a clause of democracy, ... We've discussed what's needed to help the 800 million people in the hemisphere. We have discussed the environment, we have discussed education, we have discussed health, and all the leaders were very, very happy with what happened.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
