"Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere"

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Source: FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Jan 26, 2012

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Marlon Brando

Actor, Director

Marlon Brando was a groundbreaking American actor known for his powerful performances in films like 'The Godfather' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.

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