Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Robert Lindsey

Author:Robert Lindsey [Lindsey, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, United States, Personal Memoirs, Actors, Motion Picture Actors and Actresses, Biography & Autobiography, Large Type Books, Biography
ISBN: 9780679410133
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1994-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

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IF I HADN’T BEEN an actor, I’ve often thought I’d have become a con man and wound up in jail. Or I might have gone crazy. Acting afforded me the luxury of being able to spend thousands of dollars on psychoanalysts, most of whom did nothing but convince me that most New York and Beverly Hills psychoanalysts are a little crazy themselves, as well as highly motivated to separate patients from their money while making their emotional problems worse. I think I’d have made a good con man; I’m good at telling lies smoothly, giving an impression of things as they are not and making people think I’m sincere. A good con man can fool anybody, but the first person he fools is himself. It occurs to me that when I was thinking about becoming a preacher I believed the talents I thought would make me a good tent-show evangelist were the same ones that would have made me a good con man.

Having had the luck to be successful as an actor also afforded me the luxury of time. I only had to do a movie once a year, for three months at the most, which paid me enough so that I didn’t have to work again until my business manager called and said, “We’ve got to pay your taxes at the end of the year, so you’d better make another movie.” When that happened, I’d look around and grab something.

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