If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Brando contrasts the comfort of successful acting with the misery of failure.
- In plain terms
- Acting is easy if you succeed, terrible if you do not.
- What can you take from it?
- Success changes your experience of the same work.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes a career worth it?
- How do you define success?
Another view
Success does not guarantee happiness or satisfaction.
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