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Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

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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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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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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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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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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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 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 a long climb up Fools' Hill.
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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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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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What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
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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 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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Acting is an empty and useless profession.
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We only have so many faces in our pockets
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Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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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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Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
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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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