Martin Landau Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I did theatrical caricatures.

I read a lot of Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Harlan Ellison. I had always enjoyed science-fiction movies; I remember being especially impressed by The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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.

I've always been interested in science fiction.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

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

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.

Trivia

Martin narrated the 2002 documentary, Shanghai Ghetto.

Martin was offered the role of Ilya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. but was not interested.

Martin was offered the role of Carl Grissom in Batman (1989) but turned it down.

Martin was named "King Of Brooklyn" in 1992 at the Welcome Back To Brooklyn festival.

Martin has taught acting, and actors he has coached include Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston.

Martin and Steve McQueen were the only two actors chosen out of 2,000 that auditioned for Lee Strasberg's exclusive acting school in 1955.

Martin was Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Mr. Spock on Star Trek.

Executive Director of Actor's Studio's West Coast Branch.

When discussing his career and newest role on The Evidence, Mr. Landau told interviewer Ellen Gray, "I find myself being offered a lot of roles these days where it's an old guy sitting at a table who grunts a great deal." He added, "And there's no arc to the character and there's no reason to be there, except to be an old guy."

Educated in the Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute.

Won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995 for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994).