Martin Landau Quotes
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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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To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
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It's good to make people laugh.
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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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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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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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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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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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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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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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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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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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In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
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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 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've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.
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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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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 played a wide variety of roles.
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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 did theatrical caricatures.