Marlon Brando — "The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop s…"
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 too much.
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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'.
Details
From his autobiography 'Songs My Mother Taught Me'