Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Brando was one of only three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.
Brando had a significant impact on film acting, and was the foremost example of the "method" acting style. While he became notorious for his "mumbling" diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century. Director Martin Scorsese said of him, "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." Actor Jack Nicholson once said, "When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one." He was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars.
“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
“An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!”
“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.”
“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”
“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”
“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.”
“We only have so many faces in our pockets”
“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”
“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”
“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening. ”
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”