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If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor. There isn't anything that pays you as well as acting while you decide what the hell you're going to do with yourself. Who cares about the applause? Do I need applause to feel good about myself?

— Marlon Brando

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An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

The Observer (1956)

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994)

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.

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

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1996)

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