Listen to Me Marlon Quotes
Marlon Brando, Himself: You have to know your subject. You have to know your character.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Jersey Joe Walcott - a terrific fighter. He'd be boxing and he'd follow some punches and boom! He'd have his fist into somebody's face. You'd think it was going to come out of the southwest and, there, it comes out of the northeast. He would never let you know where he was gonna hit you. Never let the audience know how its going to come out. Get them on your time.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: It's a very strange thing, this business of storytelling. You don't always know when you're good.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: The audience will lend themselves to the subject. They will create things that are not there.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: We had an act we put on for each other. I played the loving son and he played the adoring parents. It was a lot of hypocrisy.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I wanted to make pictures that are meaningful - to me.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: You bring part of yourself to every character. But, some parts are closer to us, than others.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I was very convincing in my pose of indifference. But, I was very sensitive and it hurt a lot.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I am really moved and motivated by things that occur that are unjust.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I was in a quandary, philosophical quandary, because, I thought, if I am not my brother's keeper, who am I? Where does my life end and my sense of responsibility to other lives begin?
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Marlon Brando, Himself: He was in Memphis at the time. He was striking for a small wage increase for garbage collectors. It was one of the best jobs a black man could get. That speech, when he says, I've been up to the mountain and I've seen the promised land. I don't know if I'm gonna get there with you. But, I'm not afraid tonight. Oh! God, I still remember that! Aw, Jesus, that's terrible. He knew he was gonna be killed.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Tahitians have the beauty of sleeping children. And when they awaken, they will waken into the nightmare that the white man lives in. The nightmare of the want of things.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Acting afforded me the opportunity of - time. I didn't have to do anything more. I only had to do it once a year, for three months at the most. It became just the way of making a living.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: You have to look at the cameraman, the producer lurking in the corner, and say, I don't give a f*ck about any of you.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: [Referring to his role in The Godfather]Putting on a mask, building a life, little by little I got into this part. And then, suddenly, something gets a hold of you. What is the nature of criminality. Where does it come from?
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Marlon Brando, Himself: It is not hard to do the big things, to scream and yell and get mad and to let somebody have it, right in the mouth. Its much harder, to do nothing. Just to sit there and think - is a lot.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: If they think I'm going to bare my soul in the next movie, they're going to choke on their shrimp salad.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: I was curious about the person in front of me and the person in front of me was Brando.
Marlon Brando, Himself: Bertolucci wanted to do the perfect autobiographical sketch of myself in this film. He wanted me to be - me.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: I want the person I see when I go to dinner with him and we talk and quarrel and discuss.
Marlon Brando, Himself: And I thought, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that for you. What the f*ck do you think I am?
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: He was obsessed by privacy. He never wanted anyone to go *deep* inside of him.
Marlon Brando, Himself: Bertolucci wanted to do the perfect autobiographical sketch of myself in this film. He wanted me to be - me.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: I want the person I see when I go to dinner with him and we talk and quarrel and discuss.
Marlon Brando, Himself: And I thought, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that for you. What the f*ck do you think I am?
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: He was obsessed by privacy. He never wanted anyone to go *deep* inside of him.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Marlon, there's nothing to fear. Its very important to trust in this process.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: Marlon, say something about your past. Show in my film, what you really are.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: Marlon, say something about your past. Show in my film, what you really are.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Go deeper and deeper.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: Every time, more and more real. Marlon was invading the character of Paul.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: Every time, more and more real. Marlon was invading the character of Paul.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Maybe you're desperate for love. Always have been in your life. But, you've been distrustful of people. Is there anything about them that scares us, that's dangerous, that's gonna hurt us? 'Cause a lot of people are frightened to death of love.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself: When he saw the movie, he was shocked. He felt betrayed by me, because I stole from him so many sincere things.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I read the script and it was stupid. It was awful. I told Francis you're making an enormous error. This guy, Kurtz, don't misuse him. I rewrote the entire script and I have it all on tape. I have a tape of everything.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Here's a story note, the guy has to be intelligent. He is without mercy, not because he's a merciless man, simply because that's the logic of it. If you're gonna have a war, you get all in or all out.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I told Francis how I wanted to be lit. Half shadows. Half light.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: He should be mysterious - a mythological figure. He is the heart of darkness.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: And I felt myself coming apart, splitting in two, and it scared me. And then I said to myself, why are you so frightened? Let the fear take you. And go - with the fear.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: Let the tension flow out of you. Let if flow out of your mind. Five. Four. Going down in an airplane. Softly coming in. One. Zero. You hear the Tahitians singing. Far distant laughter. And it's just after the sun has gone down. The star comes. First star of the evening. Peace and love.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: I've taken too many f*ckin' punches. I don't want to be stressed any more.
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Marlon Brando, Himself: It took me awhile to realize, you gotta be your own analyst. Unless we look inwards, we'll not ever be able to clearly see outwards.
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