Martin Landau movie quotes

“We are the last living survivors from our prison block. Besides me, you are the only person who could still recognize the man who killed our families.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum

“Don't let up until you hear cartilage snap, or they crap in their pants.”
Martin Landau - Sal Bandini

“We can't run from who we are, our destiny chooses us.”
Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky

“- Antony: Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.
- Rufio: It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. Generals without armies are naked indeed.”
Richard Burton - Mark Antony
Martin Landau - Rufio

“- Leonard: Sometimes the truth does taste like a mouthful of worms.
- Phillip Vandamm: The truth? I've heard nothing but innuendos.
- Leonard: Call it my woman's intuition, if you will. But I've never trusted neatness. Neatness is always the result of deliberate planning.”
Martin Landau - Leonard
James Mason - Phillip Vandamm

“Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.”
Martin Landau

“- Max Rosenbaum: Do you remember what you said you would do when Ruth died?
- Zev Gutman: [pauses] No.
- Max Rosenbaum: That's okay, it's okay. I wrote everything down so you could remember.”
Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum
Christopher Plummer - Zev Gutman

“There is no fortune worth the price of a true love. Some things are priceless.”
Martin Landau - Mr. Donald Blakemore

“- Neal: Everybody has to work for somebody. Even Michelangelo had to please the Pope.
- Vincent Eastman: The Pope didn't ask for parking space.”
Martin Landau - Neal
Richard Tiffany Gere - Vincent Eastman

“- Max Rosenbaum: He knew exactly what he was doing.
- Retirement Home Senior: What? What are you talking about, Max?
- Max Rosenbaum: The man he killed was named Kunibert Sturm. And Zev's name was Otto Wallisch. They were the men who... murdered my family.”

Martin Landau - Max Rosenbaum
Hazel Gorin - Retirement Home Senior #1

“Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.”
Martin Landau

“Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.”
Martin Landau

“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
Martin Landau On Sir Charlie Chaplin

- Bela Lugosi: The pure horror, it both repels and attracts them, because in their collective unconsiousness, they have the agony of childbirth. The blood. The blood is horror.
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: You know, I never thought of that.
- Bela Lugosi: Take my word for it. If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see "Dracula".

Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood

“Jack lives in the real world. You live in the kingdom of heaven. I'd managed to keep free of that real world but suddenly it's found me.”

Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

“Kickin' me was right. Checkin' to see if I was okay was wrong.”

Martin Landau - Sal Bandini

“That script of yours has all the right elements. I mean it's got good characters and a terrific story. I don't know if you agree with me but I think story is the most important element of a script.”
Martin Landau - Jack Roth

“- Al: How about sex?
- Ed: I'm sorry, Al, but I'm gonna have to pass. And it's not an age thing, 'cause you are still a handsome man.”
Martin Landau - Al
Matthew McConaughey - Ed

“- Beverly: That's right I'm fucking both your investors so don't fuck with me, any questions?
- Jack Roth: You know I've never had Sushi before.”
Sheryl Lee Ralph - Beverly
Martin Landau - Jack Roth

“- Conrad Brooks: You know which movie of yours I love, Mr. Lugosi? The Invisible Ray. You were great as Karloff's sidekick.
- Bela Lugosi: Karloff? Sidekick? Fuck you! Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in hell for all I care!”
Brent Hinkley - Conrad Brooks
Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: You know, you're much scarier in real life than you are in the movie.
- Bela Lugosi: Thank you.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Martin Landau - Bela Lugosi

“Without God the world is a cesspool.”
Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

“Don't blame your mother, I was irresistible!”

Martin Landau - Al

“If you want a happy ending, you should go see a Hollywood movie.”
Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

When I was a little kid, maybe five years old, in the old country, my mother used to say to me; she'd warn me, she'd say, "Don't get too close to people. You'll catch their dreams".
Martin Landau - Abe