Frank Langella Quotes
What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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You never know what you find once you really get going.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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The packaging of Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't have the name of the band, doesn't have the name of the album: It's got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn't quite get to No. 1 in the United States - it went to No. 2 - but stayed on the charts for years and years and years.
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Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
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What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.
