American - Actor | June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017
I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
Martin Landau
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The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
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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.
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No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.
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I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.
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I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.
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I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.
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Teachers are important in this world.
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I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.
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