An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
Interpretation
An actor must embrace all aspects of life to authentically portray it.
Marlon Brando emphasizes that to truly embody the role of an actor, one must draw from the vastness of life's experiences. This willingness to accept and understand every facet of human existence is crucial for creating genuine and relatable performances that resonate with audiences.
In practice
In a drama class, the instructor might say, 'As Marlon Brando said, an actor must interpret life, drawing from all experiences.'
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.
I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
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.
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.
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Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.
Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.
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