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An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Marlon Brando

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Marlon Brando
Age: 80 †
Born: 1924
Born: April 3
Died: 2004
Died: July 1
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Omaha
Nebraska
Marlon Brando Jr.
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Talking
Actors

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If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
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In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
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Acting is an empty and useless profession.
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What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
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I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.
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Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.
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It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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The close-up says everything.
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Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
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