Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. Its a bums life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. – Marlon Brando
With women, Ive got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they cant get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. – Marlon Brando
To grasp the full significance of life is the actors duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. – Marlon Brando
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country