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[marlon] Brando's A Giant On Every Level. When He Acts It's As If He Landed From Another Planet. A Planet Where They Produce Great Actors.

Many Years Ago, In The Late '70s, I Toured Colleges Along The East Coast And I Presented A Kind Of Show Where I Got A Lot Of Books And Poetry And Pieces Of [william] Shakespeare And Other Writers That I Admire, Read It To The Class And Then Afterward We Would Talk And I Would Answer Questions. It Was Really A Way Of Expressing And Finding Out About Where I Was At That Particular Time, So It Was Very Therapeutic For Me.

My Grandfather Was A Provider. Work, Any Kind Of Work, Was The Joy Of His Life. So I Grew Up Having A Certain Relationship To Work. It Was Something That I Always Wanted.

When I Was Younger, I Would Go To Auditions To Have The Opportunity To Audition, Which Would Mean Another Chance To Get Up There And Try Out My Stuff, Or Try Out What I Learned And See How It Worked With An Audience, Because Where Are You Gonna Get An Audience?

I Wanted To Be A Baseball Player, Naturally, But I Wasn't Good Enough. I Didn't Know What I Was Going To Do With My Life. I Just Had A Kind Of Energy, I Was A Fairly Happy Kid.