American - Actor | June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017
Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instructive. Little boys who don't behave wind up in lots of trouble.
Martin Landau
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I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
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Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
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Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.
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I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.
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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.
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I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.
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I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.
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