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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

— Marlon Brando Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994)

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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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