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Marlon Brando Daily Quotes ZoneMarlon Brando"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent"   
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American on-screen character, film chief, and dissident. He is hailed for conveying a holding authenticity to film acting, and is habitually refered to as the best and most compelling performing artist ever. A social symbol, Brando is most acclaimed for his Academy Award-winning exhibitions as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), and in addition powerful exhibitions in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), The Wild One (1953), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Apocalypse Now (1979). Brando was likewise a lobbyist, supporting numerous causes, strikingly the African-American Civil Rights Movement and different American Indian Movements. Brando took a four-year rest before showing up in The Missouri Breaks (1976). After this, he was substance to be a generously compensated character on-screen character in parts that were celebrated cameos, for example, in Superman (1978) and The Formula (1980), preceding enjoying a nine-year reprieve from films. As indicated by the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $3.7 million ($14 million in expansion balanced dollars) and 11.75% of the gross benefits for 13 days take a shot at Superman, further adding to his persona. Brando was positioned by the American Film Institute as the fourth most noteworthy screen legend among male motion picture stars whose screen debuts happened in or before 1950. Thought to be a standout among the most vital on-screen characters of American silver screen, Brando was one of just three expert performing artists, alongside Sir Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named in 1999 by Time magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century.
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Daily Quotes Zone - R. Lee ErmeyR. Lee Ermey"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot" Ronald "R." Lee Ermey (conceived March 24, 1944) is an American actor, best referred to for his part as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe Award assignment for Best Supporting Actor. He is a resigned United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant and a privileged Gunnery Sergeant; amid his residency in the U.S. Marine Corps, he served as a drill teacher. ...
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Daily Quotes Zone - Joan CrawfordJoan Crawford"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell" 
Biography:
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904[Note 2] – May 10, 1977), was an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage chorine. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
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Gary Oldman
"You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color"
Biography:
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor, filmmaker, musician and author. Renowned for his "big" acting style, Oldman is one of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television.
Oldman began acting on stage in 1979, and gained his first starring film role in Meantime (1983). He continued to lead an acclaimed theatre career, during which he performed at London's Royal Court and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with credits including The Massacre at Paris (1980), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1983), Saved (1983), Women Beware Women (1986), The Country Wife (1987) and Hamlet (1987). Oldman's portrayals of Sid Vicious and Joe Orton, in the biographical films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987) respectively, prompted critic Roger Ebert to declare him "the best young British actor around"; the latter brought Oldman a BAFTA Award nomination. Roles as a football firm leader in The Firm (1989) and the titular Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) further increased his renown within British film.
Oldman went on to achieve international recognition as an Irish American gangster in State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991), and Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), which earned him the Saturn Award for Best Actor. Emerging as a popular portrayer of villains, Oldman starred as corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional (1994), as well as the antagonists of films such as True Romance (1993), The Fifth Element (1997), Air Force One (1997), and The Contender (2000), for which he garnered a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination; Oldman meanwhile played Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994). In the 21st century, he is known for his roles as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series; James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy; George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), which brought Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Actor; and a human leader in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Oldman also voiced the villain Lord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011).
As of 2016, motion pictures in which Oldman has starred have grossed over $10.6 billion. Outside of acting in film, he wrote and directed the double BAFTA Award-winning, Palme d'Or-nominated Nil by Mouth (1997); made an Emmy Award-nominated guest appearance in the Friends two-part episode "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" (2001); featured in music videos by artists including David Bowie, Guns N' Roses and Annie Lennox; and provided the voice of Viktor Reznov in the Call of Duty video game series.
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