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There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

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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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What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
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Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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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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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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Horror and moral terror are your friends.
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Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.
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The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
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Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
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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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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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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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I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
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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 a long climb up Fools' Hill.
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I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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