Marlon Brando — "The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
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"I don't believe in God. I believe in people."
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving."
"I don't think I'm a genius. I think I'm a worker."
"An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening."
"I couldn't care less about the Oscar. It's a piece of junk."
About Marlon Brando (1924-2004)
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'.