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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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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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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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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In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
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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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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'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 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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No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
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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 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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Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.
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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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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 theatrical caricatures.
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My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
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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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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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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 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 played a wide variety of roles.
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You have to be crazy to do theater.