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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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
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Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
