Ernest’s Reviews > The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando > Status Update

Marlon's embrace of psychotherapy would often be presented condescendingly, as an amusing example of just how offbeat he was. But the truth is something else entirely...he knew, given his family history, that he had a predisposition for addiction, and "so he rarely drank," Ellen Adler said…Unlike so many of his peers, Marlon took the lead in trying to conquer his demons. That should be applauded, not ridiculed.

“I have to read,” Bud told him. “I have to study. I have to learn new things.”

"Your life is one-millionth of what you know," Stella [Adler] taught. "Your talent is your imagination." Everything else, she insisted, was "lice."