Martin Landau Quotes

The great thing about Satan is it's kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it's Al Pacino or little old me.

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

I don't do the same show twice. I've never done a show word for word.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.

My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.

You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.

To each our own Hamlet.

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing it for millions of years. You can't let down those ballerinas who died a long time ago. My teacher will say, "This person would be ashamed!" And it's like, oh God. But with acting, it's different because people like something fresh. You can mix it up and create your own thing and it's not necessarily wrong.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.