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Martin Landau Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017

Topics

Character Living Dialogue Share

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

Jennifer Weiner

Book Name You New Forget Lucky

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

People Reality Create Drama Things

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

Women Woman Impossible You Play

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

Michael Arrington

Black And White Money Job World Real

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Woman I Am Black You Person Know

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

Me Charity Doing I Can Stop Hard

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Children Easy Your Making Lives

I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.

Child Chocolate Milk Passionate Get

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

Time Fool Thought Parent Long Being

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Mary Harris Jones

Early Career Labor Others Bear Must

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

Live Money Day Space End Better

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Money Man Chance Back Nothing Going

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