Martin Landau Quotes

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

I've always loved doing comedy.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.