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What does it mean?
Brando refuses to let the commercial press exploit or dilute his personality.
In plain terms
I will not let the press cheapen my personality.
What can you take from it?
Avoid letting media reduce your identity to content.

Where it applies

  • interviews
  • press coverage
  • public appearances

Putting it to work

  • decline interviews
  • control your narrative
  • avoid media traps

Questions to consider

  • How do you maintain identity under scrutiny?
  • When is it okay to share your life?

Another view

Avoiding media can also limit your influence.

More from Marlon Brando

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  2. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

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  3. He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald. (on Frank Sinatra)

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