Would I rather be a Brando or a Borgnine?

Listening to the BBC I came across an interview with movie actor
Ernest Borgnine (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002rs86).
This man, born 24 Jan 1917, is 92 years old and still hale and hearty,
and still happily working.
As an active-ager at 65, I say: wow! gotta read up on this man,
one of my favorite actors.
I came across several websites including
http://www.thedivareview.com/Ernest_Borgnine_Exclusive_Interview.htm
and
http://www.wharf.co.uk/2009/05/interview-hollywood-legend-ern.html



He said things like:
" Where can we find the great actors we had yesteryear,
guys like Spencer Tracy and Gary Cooper and Edward G. Robinson?
You know, I was talking to Lee Marvin the other day and we agreed
that we were the last of a breed. We're the last who had the
opportunity of working with these fine actors. I feel very humble.
It makes me feel that I've got to try that bit harder."

and, regarding former neighbor Marlon Brando:
"I'd see him occasionally when I'd go down at two or three o'clock
in the morning to the store and he'd be down there buying ice cream.
He was a nice fella but he was huge at the end."

Which got me to read up on Marlon Brando (1924-2004) on websites including
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando
whose comments on his final years and death appear to be the general agreement
about him:
"Brando's notoriety, his troubled family life, and his obesity
attracted more attention than his late acting career.
He gained a great deal of weight in the 1980s and by the
mid 1990s he weighed over 300 lbs. (136 kg) and suffered
from diabetes.
He also earned a reputation for being difficult on the set,
often unwilling or unable to memorize his lines and less
interested in taking direction than in confronting the film
director with odd and childish demands."

I also read about Marlon Brando as a 66-year-old man
pleading in court for his son's killing of Marlon Brando's
daughter's boyfriend in websites such as:
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-christianbrandoobit,0,5591696.story

There is great advice to all of us from Ernest Borgnine in the opening paragraph of
http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/reviewsfull.php?id=11015
"Hollywood legend Ernest Borgnine needs no introduction.
At the ripe old age of 92, the Golden Globe, BAFTA and
Academy Award-winning actor has more energy than most
20 year-olds and doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
One of the first things Ernie (he insists I call him Ernie)
tells me is that he thinks "retiring is the worst thing in the
world. You may as well be dead. People wonder why they die
so fast; but you got to get out there and hussle, kid." And this
is exactly what he has spent nearly a century doing."

So would I want to end my life as Marlon Brando, or as an Ernest Borgnine?
My wish is clear. I continue to look up to good role models who leave a
good legacy. As Ernest Borgnine ('call me Ernie') says:
"It makes me feel that I've got to try that bit harder" - and have fun.

Cheers!