Quote by Marlon Brando
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. Its a bums life. T

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

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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

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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

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The only reason Im in Hollywood is that I dont have the moral courage to refuse the money. – Marlon Brando

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role. – Eleanor Robson Belmont

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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – Bertolt Brecht

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