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Everything at Amazon by and about: Marlon BrandoMy father was a traveling salesman and my mother was a drunk, and I had a complete nervous breakdown at the age of 19. I might easily have become a criminal. Only by 10 years of intensive psychoanalysis did I manage to retain my sanity I think I did the best acting I've ever done in that picture ("Burn !"), but few people came to see it An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer She (Adler) taught me to be real and not to try to act out an emotion I didn't personally experience during a performance Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent I have eyes like those of a dead pig. The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber? I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute prerequisite. If we are not our brother's keepers, at least let us not be his executioner 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 Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer. You don't know that he's senile 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 I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed. All I want to be is normally insane To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still. 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 I went home and did some rehearsing to satisfy my curiosity about whether I could play an Italian. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks, and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor. After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather I am myself and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain true to myself, I will do it The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. I can draw no conclusions about my life because it is a continually evolving and unfolding process. I don't know what is next. I am more surprised at how I turned out than I am about anything else. I don't ever remember trying to be successful. It just happened. I was only trying to survive 3
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