Frank Langella Quotes
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
-
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.
-
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
-
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.
-
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
-
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
-
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
-
My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
-
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
-
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
-
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.
-
When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
-
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
-
The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
-
If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
-
I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
-
I've always loved the infield, because I came up as an infielder.
-
Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.
