People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
What I'm saying not a lot of people say: What is considered good acting today isn't necessarily good acting, because everybody knows… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think… — 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 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
Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
My mantra is "stay perpendicular." Horizontal is not as good. Half the people that came along and up with with me are… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
The idea of death is something that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. But to bring something back - or… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Most acting today on television is like a locomotive on a track. Everybody knows what they are doing. The problem of writing… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
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 Image
