Martin Landau

I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.

— Martin Landau

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it…

— Martin Landau

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

— Martin Landau

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

— Martin Landau

I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.

— Martin Landau

I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast…

— Martin Landau

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

— Martin Landau

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave…

— Martin Landau

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike…

— Martin Landau

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

— Martin Landau

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

— Martin Landau

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.

— Martin Landau

My mantra is "stay perpendicular." Horizontal is not as good. Half the people that came along and up with with me are…

— Martin Landau

I've always been interested in science fiction

— Martin Landau

You have to be crazy to do theater.

— Martin Landau

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

— Martin Landau

All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

— Martin Landau

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

— Martin Landau

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

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

— Martin Landau

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

— Martin Landau

A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.

— Martin Landau

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

— Martin Landau

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the…

— Martin Landau

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way…

— Martin Landau