Martin Landau
Actor
1928-06-20 – 2017-07-15
Martin Landau was an American actor known for stage, film, and television work across six decades. He gained wide recognition for Mission: Impossible and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Wood. Landau was also noted for performances in films such as Crimes and Misdemeanors and Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
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Quotes by Martin Landau
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Sergio Leone came to see me when I was doing 'Mission Impossible.' He wanted me to do 'A Fistful of Dollars.' I turned him down. I didn't want to get stuck as a stoic Western movie star.
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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.
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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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Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
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