Marlon Brando: Act

Marlon Brando was American screen and stage actor. Explore interesting quotes on act.
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“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.”

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando: The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985), Ch.13

Life

“Bob Hope will go to the opening of a phone booth in a gas station in Anaheim, providing they have a camera there and three people. He'll go to the opening of a market to receive an award. He'd get an award from Thom McCan for wearing their shoes. It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up. He's like a junkie – an applause junkie. What happens to those people when they can't get up and do their shtick, God only knows. Bob Hope, Christ, instead of growing old gracefully or doing something with his money, be helpful, all he does is he has an anniversary with the President looking on. It's sad. He gets on an airplane every two minutes always going someplace. It didn't bother him at all to work the Vietnam War. Oh, he took that in his stride. He did his World War II and Korean War act. "Our boys" and all that. He’s a pathetic guy.”

Marlon Brando
Money , God , War , People

“Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.”

Marlon Brando

Introduction to The Technique of Acting by Stella Adler (1988)

Life

“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando: The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985), Ch.13

Money

“A lot of the old movie stars couldn't act their way out of a box of wet tissue paper, but they were successful because they had distinctive personalities. They were predictable brands of breakfast cereal: on Wednesdays we had Quaker Oats and Gary Cooper; on Fridays we had Wheaties and Clark Gable. They were off-the-shelf products you expected always to be the same, actors and actresses with likable personalities who played themselves more or less the same role the same way every time out.”

Marlon Brando
Way , Star , Time , Success

“Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.”

Marlon Brando

New York Times (July 2, 2004)

People

“It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.”

Marlon Brando

Introduction to The Technique of Acting by Stella Adler (1988)

“If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor. There isn't anything that pays you as well as acting while you decide what the hell you're going to do with yourself. Who cares about the applause? Do I need applause to feel good about myself?”

Marlon Brando

New York Times (July 2, 2004)

Feeling , Hell