Happy Birthday: Marlon Brando (1924–2004)

Marlon Brando (1924–2004)

Born: April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Died: July 1, 2004 (age 80) in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Acting is just hustling.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

People will like you who never met you, they think you’re absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don’t want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don’t like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that’s reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it’s not reasonable, so that somewhere it’s jingoist extremism.

If you’ve made a hit movie, then you get the full 32-teeth display in some places; and if you’ve sort of faded, they say, “Are you still making movies? I remember that picture, blah blah blah.” And so it goes. The point of all this is, people are interested in people who are successful.

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