Marlon Brando — "I don't like to talk about my personal life."
I don't like to talk about my personal life.
I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life."
"If you're going to be a movie star, you'd better be a good one."
"I don't like to be predictable. I think it's boring."
"Acting is an empty and useless profession."
"We couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act. Acting is a survival mechanism, and it's a social lubricant. And we act to save our lives, actually, every day. People lie constantly every day …"
American actor whose A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954) defined Method acting and reshaped 20th-century film performance. Closely associated with James Dean (Method-acting peer and protégé) and Montgomery Clift (Method contemporary and friend). For an intellectual contrast, see Laurence Olivier, British classical-trained actor — Olivier's technical, externally-constructed approach to acting is the precise opposite of the Method's emotional-recall internalism — the canonical 'Method vs classical' binary 20th-century acting pedagogy is organized around. Olivier reportedly told a frustrated Hoffman: 'Try acting, my dear boy'.
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