American - Actor | June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017
I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.
Martin Landau
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I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.
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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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In film, there are always things that could conceivably create artificiality in any performance.
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Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living.
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Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.
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My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
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I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.
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I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.
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Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.
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I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
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Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'
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