Martin Landau Quotes

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

I feel like I can do any kind of acting. It's hard to convince other people of that. I feel very confident that most any role, I would be able to do it. I don't have a lot of insecurities around acting.

I'm mad creative for acting.

Looks are not important when it comes to acting.

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.