Character Quote by Martin Landau Download Open image “The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.” — Martin Landau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character How Important Play Way
If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play. — Mark White Copy Share Image
Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I… — Paul Darrow Copy Share Image
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him. — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
I don't want to do loud roles. I want to play some realistic characters. — Mallika Sherawat Copy Share Image
What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly,… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Character is key. Once you've got that voice going, everything else can follow. If you've also got the right tone, you're in the right… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique. — Stephen Malkmus 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
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
