Martin Landau Quotes
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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'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.
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I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn't stand.
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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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To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
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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'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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They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?
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The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.
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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'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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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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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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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.
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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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Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.
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In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
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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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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.
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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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I did theatrical caricatures.