Martin Landau Quotes

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.'

I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

I wasn't offered a role in 'Expendables 1,' and I'm a guest star in 'Expendables 2.'

I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.

I will not hesitate to take up good film offers.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

I had acted opposite Sathyaraj in 'Uchchi Thanai Mugarndhal.' It was a role which some actresses refused to do.

I want to do movies.

I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.'

I need to be careful about the films I choose to do.

I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.