Martin Landau Quotes

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.

Martin Landau

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• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Jesus
  • Justice
  • Poverty

• I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Wanted
  • More

• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Think
  • Chance

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Music
  • Way
  • Right

• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • May
  • Saying

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Trust

• Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

  

  Edmund White
  • Read
  • Americans
  • England

• All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Country

• Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Universe
  • Acceptance

• Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • Door

• We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Style

• I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Education

• When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Control
  • Star
  • Door

• Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life

• Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Money
  • Love
  • Bad

• If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Failure
  • Create
  • Conditions

• NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.

  

  Martin Landau