Acting should be terminal. Thats what Stella told me; thats what Kazan also believed. If something big isnt at stake--if everything isnt at stake--why bother? Why show up? Why apply anything to it at all? Someone is out there dreaming and asking questions and wondering why he was born. Some guy is out there with a father who beats him and tells him hes a loser with a lousy dick and no chance in hell of amounting to anything. Well, what do I tell him? How do I reach out to him and tell him a story? Theres a girl out there who doesnt have a mother to teach her how to take care of a house or a man or herself, and what do I tell her? Whats the story for her? Its in the text somewhere; its in my heart and my mind somewhere, and I spend all my time and energy and love trying to find it, trying to transmit it. Thats what I think acting should be. You honor the playwrights words, and you find a character out of those words, and you marry the director in your heart and you follow him and pray he follows you. --Marlon Brando/Interview with James Grissom/1990/
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 04:13:25 +0000
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