American - Actor | June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017
I was being groomed to be the theatrical caricaturist. And I know if I got that job, I'd never quit. So I quit. I knew I wanted to go into the theater... I wanted to act.
Martin Landau
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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'North by Northwest' took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn't intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.
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I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite.
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When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.
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A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you.
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I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.
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I did theatrical caricatures.
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Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
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The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
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I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.
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I've always been interested in science fiction.
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