Martin Landau Quotes

The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Satisfied
  • Well

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Kids

• Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moment
  • Difficulties
  • Dealt

• We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Listen

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Ambition

• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Experiences

• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Medical

• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evolution

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite

• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Support

• O’er folded blooms On swirls of musk,The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley

• There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Important
  • Science
  • Doubt

• All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Running
  • Genius
  • Souls

• The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.

  

  Martin Landau