Martin Landau Quotes

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

Martin Landau

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• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Corrupt

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Treat

• In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • People
  • Remember
  • College

• None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Kids
  • Together

• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Media

• My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Win

• And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• 'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Trouble

• I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Want
  • You
  • Fearless

• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • House
  • Night

• I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mirror
  • Monkey

• Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Want
  • Way
  • Clarity

• Education is the key in so many ways.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Education

• You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

  

  Al Murray
  • Kid
  • Holidays
  • Self-Sufficiency

• The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

  

  George Packer
  • Long
  • Money
  • Home

• I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Education
  • Justice
  • Stories

• It’s fairly intuitive that never exploring is no way to live. But it’s also worth mentioning that never exploiting can be every bit as bad. In the computer science definition, exploitation actually comes to characterize many of what we consider to be life’s best moments. A family gathering together on the holidays is exploitation. So is a bookworm settling into a reading chair with a hot cup of coffee and a beloved favorite, or a band playing their greatest hits to a crowd of adoring fans, or a couple that has stood the test of time dancing to “their song.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Family
  • Moments
  • Exploitation

• I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

  

  Martin Landau