Martin Landau Quotes

'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.

Martin Landau

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• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Growth

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • You
  • Hair

• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Natural
  • Old
  • Admiration

• If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Allah

• Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Support
  • Ending

• Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Live
  • Free

• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Country
  • Power

• It's much easier to work with an unknown.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Work
  • Unknown
  • Much

• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Children
  • Book
  • Difficult

• I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Money
  • Power
  • Political

• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

  

  Sallust
  • Bad
  • Measure
  • Precedent

• Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Environment

• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • First
  • Room

• Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • World
  • Women
  • City

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Decision

• Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Up

• I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Voice
  • Convinced
  • Extra

• You don't have to walk alone.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Alone

• A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Childhood

• 'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.

  

  Martin Landau