“I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,...” — Martin Landau Quote

I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

People are fascinated by me and always have been, and I have no clue why.

I can be a bit of a know-all. That's been a defence since I was young. I often say: 'Oh yes, I know, I know,' when I really don't know. I can sound like I have strong opinions, often when I have the least clue.