Martin Landau Quotes

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

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

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

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

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

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.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

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

If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I did theatrical caricatures.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

I've always been interested in science fiction

It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

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

Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.

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.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.