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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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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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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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Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
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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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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
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The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
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Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
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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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(...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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The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
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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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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.
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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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In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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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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All I want to be is normally insane.
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