Martin Landau Quotes
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I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
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It's good to make people laugh.
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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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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 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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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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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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To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
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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 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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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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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've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.
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I did theatrical caricatures.
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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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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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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 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.