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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. . . . The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Source: Quoted in: Gary Carey, Marlon Brando: The Only Contender, ch. 13 (1985). Brando talked of giving up acting for directing One-Eyed Jacks in 1960.
-- Marlon Brando, (Apr 3 1924-2004), US actor; He is a controversial and acclaimed actor who won Oscars for On the Waterfront, 1954 and The Godfather, 1972.