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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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Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
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In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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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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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
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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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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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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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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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All I want to be is normally insane.
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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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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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Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
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It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.
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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
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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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What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
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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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