Martin Landau Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
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I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.
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When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.
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I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.
