Martin Landau Quotes
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It's good to make people laugh.
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People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.
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I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.
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Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.
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As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.
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I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.
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The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.
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How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.
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The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here in their heads.
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No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
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Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.
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I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.
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I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.
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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
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A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
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You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.
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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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I did theatrical caricatures.
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My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
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I played a wide variety of roles.
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I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.