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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

Martin Landau

I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.

Martin Landau

My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.

Martin Landau

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Martin Landau

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

Martin Landau

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.

Martin Landau

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

Martin Landau

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.

Martin Landau

In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.

Martin Landau

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.

Martin Landau

Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.

Martin Landau

I did theatrical caricatures.

Martin Landau

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.

Martin Landau

There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody Allen and Tim Burton. Two different textures, but both get to do what they want, and that's rare.

Martin Landau

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Martin Landau

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

Martin Landau

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

Martin Landau

I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.

Martin Landau

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

Martin Landau

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

Martin Landau

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

Martin Landau

'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.

Martin Landau

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.

Martin Landau

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

Martin Landau

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.

Martin Landau

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.

Martin Landau

You have to be crazy to do theater.

Martin Landau

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.

Martin Landau

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

Martin Landau

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

I hung around with Jason Robards, Richard Harris, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton. I knew not to match them for drinks.

Martin Landau

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.

Martin Landau

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

Martin Landau

I played a wide variety of roles.

Martin Landau

Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.

Martin Landau

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.

Martin Landau