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
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Sensitivity can lead to emotional pain and prevent personal growth.
Marlon Brando's quote highlights the paradox of sensitivity; it suggests that while being sensitive enables deep emotional experiences, it also makes one more vulnerable to pain and suffering. By choosing to suppress feelings to avoid hurt, one risks stagnation and fails to develop and evolve as an individual.
Themes
SensitivityEmotional PainGrowthEmotionVulnerability
In practice
Example use cases
In a self-help seminar discussing emotional healing.
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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.
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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.
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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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If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
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