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Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director. He is credited with bringing realism to film acting, helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, studying with Stella Adler in the 1940s. Regarded for his cultural influence on 20th century film, Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). Brando was an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements.

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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.

Crafts, Long, People, Want Something, Whenever

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

Morning, Night, Thinking, Learns, Incapable

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

Damage, Damages, Define, Stories, Story, Way

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

Leave, Littles, Thing, Way, World

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Acting, Away, Becomes, Faces, Inches, Your Face

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Acting, Expression, Maturity, Neurotic, Sign

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Success, Excellence, Myth, Elvis, Presley

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Film History, Hollywood Films, Make, Movie, Offer, Refuse

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

Failures, Hollywood, People, Successful

I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.

Men, Thinking, Female, Genetically, Ordained, Nature

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Money, Mind, Complaining, Fat, Same

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

Experiences, Lovers, May, Men, Number, Numbers

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

Having, Jobs, Successful, Unsuccessful, Wish

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

Acting, Funny, Humorous, Pay, Psychoanalysis

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Doe, Hey, Philosophy, Wanna

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Long, Matter, Thinking

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Bamboo, Leather, Long, Slip, Snakes

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

Actors, Face, Faces, Inches, Reality, Stage

The close-up says everything.

Everything, Says

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

Failure, Ruin, Ruins, Success, Too Much

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