Marlon Brando
The Godfather, released in 1972, is among the most cited works in Marlon Brando's career, a film in which he performed the title role of a powerful organized-crime patriarch.
Brando was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, and was a citizen of the United States. He attended Libertyville High School and Shattuck-Saint Mary's School before pursuing formal training in performance, first at The New School and then at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Actors Studio. His occupations spanned stage acting, film acting, television acting, directing, writing, theatre management, and activism. His stage work included A Streetcar Named Desire, and his screen credits extended to On the Waterfront, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now, Burn!, and One-Eyed Jacks, the last of which he also directed. Over the course of his career he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie, the Theatre World Award, Donaldson Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor.
Brando worked across stage, film, and television throughout his life, maintaining a presence in each medium at different points in his career. He died on July 1, 2004, in Los Angeles. His Primetime Emmy Award, given for a television performance, stands as a concrete marker of the range his work covered across multiple formats during his lifetime.
Quotes by Marlon Brando
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I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.
There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.
We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?
Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.
The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.