American - Actor | June 20, 1928 - July 15, 2017
To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.
Martin Landau
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My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
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I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.
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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.
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The idea of death is something that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. But to bring something back - or vampires who never die - is a logical fantasy for a human being.
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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.
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I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
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As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homosexuals who died in the Holocaust, too. It's amazing that people allowed this slaughter to take place. There's a need to make these films and reiterate it happened.
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I don't think villains think they are villains.
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The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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