An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
Interpretation
An actor must embrace all aspects of life to authentically portray it.
Marlon Brando emphasizes that to truly embody the role of an actor, one must draw from the vastness of life's experiences. This willingness to accept and understand every facet of human existence is crucial for creating genuine and relatable performances that resonate with audiences.
In practice
In a drama class, the instructor might say, 'As Marlon Brando said, an actor must interpret life, drawing from all experiences.'
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.
I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
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