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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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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.
Martin Landau
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How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.
Martin Landau -
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.
Martin Landau -
Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
Martin Landau -
The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
Martin Landau -
I did theatrical caricatures.
Martin Landau -
Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
Martin Landau
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All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.
Martin Landau -
I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
Martin Landau -
I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.
Martin Landau -
My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
Martin Landau