Martin Landau Quotes
I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
-
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
-
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
-
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
-
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
-
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
-
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
-
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
-
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
-
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
-
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
-
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
-
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
-
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
-
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
-
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
-
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
-
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
-
I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.
-
I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
