An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
Marlon BrandoRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Marlon Brando expresses how he uses a facade to protect his sensitive nature from rejection.
In this quote, Marlon Brando reveals the complexity of his emotions and the duality of his character. He suggests that his seemingly insensitive demeanor is actually a defense mechanism, a form of armor he wears to shield himself from the harsh realities of rejection and unacceptance. This illustrates the struggle many individuals face between vulnerability and self-protection, especially in social situations where judgment and criticism are prevalent.
Themes
SensitivityArmorRejectionVulnerabilitySelf-Protection
In practice
Example use cases
When discussing mental health in a seminar on emotional intelligence.
More from Marlon Brando
All quotes →A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.
Marlon BrandoRead
I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
Marlon BrandoRead
Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Marlon BrandoRead
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
Marlon BrandoRead
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Marlon BrandoRead
Similar quotes
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.
Ruby WaxRead
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen KellerRead
The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.
Iyanla VanzantRead
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.
Audre LordeRead
You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
Candace BushnellRead
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
Elizabeth EdwardsRead