Acting Quote by Martin Landau

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

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

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

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

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

God is a luxury I can't afford.

— Martin Landau

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

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.

— Martin Landau

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

— Martin Landau

I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite.

— Martin Landau

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

— Martin Landau

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