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I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn't stand.

~Martin Landau

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When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.

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I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

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My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.

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A lot of the bad guys I've played just haven't had much dimension to them.

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I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.

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I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

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I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

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A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and at that point, the cinematographer takes over. You start accommodating the camera instead of the camera accommodating you.

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All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 20th, 1928

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