Martin Landau Quotes
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I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.
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'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.
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I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
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I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.
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My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.
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I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.
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I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.
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I've always been interested in science fiction.
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Teachers are important in this world.
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There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody Allen and Tim Burton. Two different textures, but both get to do what they want, and that's rare.
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When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.
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Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.
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A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.
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In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.
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Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.
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How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.
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I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
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Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.
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I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you.