Frank Langella Quotes

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

Frank Langella

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• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Life is God's art.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Knowledge
  • Moving
  • Best

• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Done
  • Christ
  • Talk

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Indispensable
  • Presents

• If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Today

• It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Power
  • Soul

• After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Road
  • Safety

• For Aldo to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men
  • Money
  • Desire

• In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Thoughts

• It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Age
  • Attention
  • Study

• One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than anything I have written. Personally I prefer 'The Offshore Pirate.' But, to tamper slightly with Lincoln: If you like this sort of thing, this, possibly, is the sort of thing you'll like.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Pirate

• I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Life
  • High
  • Culture

• Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Different
  • Film
  • Approach

• I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.

  

  Brad Stone
  • Up
  • Meaningful

• Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

  

  Eugene Gendlin
  • Experience
  • Philosophy
  • Report

• You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

  

  Frank Langella