Martin Landau Quotes
The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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Music was sort of my thing at first.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
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I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
