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Martin Landau
Martin Landau
American Actor
Born: Jun 20, 1928
Died: Jul 15, 2017
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Jimmy Dean was my best friend. Martin Landau
Best Jimmy Best Friend Dean Friend
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. Martin Landau
Life Think Other Everybody Out Fond Through Particularly His End Goes Done Happen Things
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was. Martin Landau
Power First Enormous Relinquished Studios Came Where Them Hollywood Agents
I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that. Martin Landau
Directly Take Like Hear Scripts Agents Actor
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. Martin Landau
Money Enough Cigarettes Enough Money Lobster Summer Week Weeks Had Had Enough Maine Bowl Were Did Where After Theater Pack Board Room Taxes Paid Shows
The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty. It honors a time when pictures helped Americans get through grim periods like the blacklist and the war. Martin Landau
War Time People Made Honors Tribute Through Feel Majestic Pictures Like Periods Boxes Dull Get American Modern Movie Grim Helped Pays Palaces Mundane Royalty
I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts. Martin Landau
Good Nuts Know Any Anybody Who
I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar. Martin Landau
Harold Those High Guys Lee Very Trained Bar Kazan Actor Set
I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue. Martin Landau
You Exceedingly Look Very North Get Northwest Clue Thin
I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range. Martin Landau
You Range Know Very Speaking Wide Wide Range
Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living. Martin Landau
Character Living Willing Share Another Reveal Dialogue
I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets. Martin Landau
People Made Down Stars Out Some No Regrets Lot Roles Them Regrets Turned
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. Martin Landau
Me Impossible Down See Stuck He Mission Him Doing Came Dollars Western Stoic Get Want Movie Wanted Movie Star Turned Sergio Star
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run. Martin Landau
Home Bat Run Would Could Take Like Felt Always Got Pinch Hit Role Hitter Decent Home Run Believed Chance
The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year. Martin Landau
Year Only Studio Steve Steve McQueen Accepted Got Were McQueen Whole Actor Two
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. Martin Landau
You Feelings Own Those Embrace Part Perish Because Your Actor Things Palette
As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things. Martin Landau
Young More Readily Offered Young Actor Being Much Working Actor Things
I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever. Martin Landau
Character Whatever Thinking Alive Diminishes Like Still Either Grows Necessarily
'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there. Martin Landau
Game Mind Out Ideal Mission Knowing Without Were Getting Anyone Ever
They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself? Martin Landau
Mistake Made Something Doing Itself Revisit Psycho Again Stands Why Fatal
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. Martin Landau
People Picture Ellen Vegas Ovation Got Still Did Screened Lovely Them Stand Standing Who Las Vegas
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. Martin Landau
Love Me Trust Will Hell Out Clarity Kinds See Somehow Through Performance Spontaneity Well How Inevitability Go Shock Get Gets Going Lack Human Human Beings Beings Things
A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them. Martin Landau
Dimension Bad Bad Guys Guys Had Lot Just Them Much Played
I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run. Martin Landau
Home You Sometimes Believe Bench Bat Run See Like Because Sound Gotten Been Hit Role Person Get Frustrating Certain Unimaginative Home Run Right Chance
A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you. Martin Landau
Time You Crew Cinematographer Independent Point Onto Takes Instead Over Go Camera Lot Front Production Rehearse Start Set
Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it. Martin Landau
Young Every Something Because Hamlet West End Young Actor Wants Actor Why Bring
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