Marlon Brando credited as playing...
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- Marlon Brando, Himself: Everything that you do - make it real as you can. Make it alive. Make it tangible. Find the truth of that moment.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Lying for a living. That's what acting is. All I've done is just learned how to be aware of the process.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: And the reason they don't have light in the theater is because you are there with your fantasy. The person up on the screen is doing all the things that you want to do. They're kissing a woman you want to kiss. Hitting the people you want to hit. Being brave in a way you want to be brave.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: A good con man can fool anybody. And the first person that you fool, as a con man, is yourself.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Acting is just making stuff up. But, that's okay. Life is a rehearsal. Life is an improvisation.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: With the wind blowing the light. The shadow of leaves. It is like a wonderful, soft dream. And that soft wind calling. That's a wind that you can trust. You are the memories.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: We develop the technique of acting, very, very early. Even from the time we're a kid, where we're throwing our oatmeal on the floor, just to get attention from our mothers. Acting is survival.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: We'd be able to have money. I never had any money. My father was a traveling salesman. I was making more in six months of work than he made in ten years. He measured everything by money. He couldn't understand how this ne'er-do-well son of his could possibly do that.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: The astounding thing, that most people don't realize, all motion pictures today, all acting today, stems from Stella Adler.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront." It had nothing to do with me. The audience does the work. They are doing the acting. Everybody feels like they're a failure. Everybody feels they could have been a contender.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: I had a lot of loneliness. I spent most of my time, up in the library reading the National Geographic Magazine about Tahiti. I was entranced by the expressions on their faces. They had unmanaged faces. No manicured expressions. A kindness. That's where I want to go. That's where I want to be.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: If you took some kid and you put him up in Tahiti, he's a completely different kid. He wouldn't have this cruel, mean society killing him every day, kiliing the life out of him. All these kids of mine are filled with love from Tahiti.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: The greatest fear an actor has, is fear. How are you gonna be judged? I don't want to be caught trying. I don't want to be caught being afraid - that my story, my pretending, my lie, is gonna be disbelieved. That's gonna steal your performance away.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: [Referring to his role in "The Godfather"] We have this antiquated belief in the myths of goodness and evil. I don't believe in either one of those. But, I thought it would be interesting to play a gangster, not from the point of view that he was the bad guy, but if he was very gentle, a hero.