Martin Landau Quotes
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It's good to make people laugh.
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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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They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?
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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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I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.
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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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I played a wide variety of roles.
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I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.
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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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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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I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
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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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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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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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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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I did theatrical caricatures.
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Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
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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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You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
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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.
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I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.
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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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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.