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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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Actors

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(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.
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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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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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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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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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Acting is an empty and useless profession.
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Horror and moral terror are your friends.
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We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
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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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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 is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
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Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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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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I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
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Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
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If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
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