Martin Landau Quotes

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

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#2. Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I've always been interested in science fiction.

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#6. God is a luxury I can't afford.

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#7. 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.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent but the point is that if they did train ... it would only broaden them more.

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

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#13. 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.

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

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