Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
A good director creates a playground for actors, and lets them go. The trick for a good director is in casting properly,… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The talented actor needs craft. When you do a stage play, you do it once each night in chronological order. In a… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
If it bothers me on the page, I don't do it. If it attracts me on the page and moves me, makes… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The modern cineplexes are mundane, dull boxes. But 'The Majestic' pays tribute to the movie palaces that made people feel like royalty.… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that… — Martin Landau Copy Share
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me… — Martin Landau Copy Share
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.… — Martin Landau Copy Share
I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25… — Martin Landau Copy Share
What I'm saying not a lot of people say: What is considered good acting today isn't necessarily good acting, because everybody knows what they… — Martin Landau Copy Share
I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to… — Martin Landau Copy Share
I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite. — Martin Landau Copy Share
An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself. — Martin Landau Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that. — Martin Landau Copy Share
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries… — Martin Landau Copy Share
