To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Marlon BrandoI put on an act sometimes, and people think Iโm insensitive. Really, itโs like a kind of armor because Iโm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesnโt like me, Iโve got to get out.
Marlon BrandoI believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.
Marlon BrandoPeople will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.
Marlon Brando