Martin Landau Quotes

It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

I really wanted to be the American James Bond when I was starting out in the business. Then I got 'Falcon Crest,' and the film portion of my career took a back seat.

'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

I love Woody Harrelson. He's a fine actor.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.

I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.

If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.

The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.