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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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All I want to be is normally insane.
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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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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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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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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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Acting is an empty and useless profession.
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We only have so many faces in our pockets
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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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Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
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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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It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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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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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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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 principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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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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