Martin Landau Quotes
I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
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I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.
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I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
