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

— 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.

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)

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

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