Marlon Brando Quotes - Page 2

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• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

  Marlon Brando

  Privacy, Absolutes, Prerequisites

  "Marlon Brando". Book by David Shipman, Ch. 11, 1989.

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• We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.

  Marlon Brando

  People, Devil, Opinion

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• I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

  Marlon Brando

  Dream, Razors, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

  Marlon Brando

  Lying, Support, Stupidity

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• Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

  Marlon Brando

  Feel Better, Crisis, Feels

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• I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.

  Marlon Brando

  Men, Thinking, Female

  "Kosher Sex : A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy". Book by Shmuley Boteach, 2000.

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• I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

  Marlon Brando

  Kings, Thinking, Dust

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• The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

  Marlon Brando

  Hollywood, Use, Agendas

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• I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, Two, People

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• In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

  Marlon Brando

  Acting, Faces, Your Face

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Humorous, Acting

  "Marlon Brando: The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, Ch.13, 1985.

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

  Marlon Brando

  Want Something, Long, People

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• Acting is an empty and useless profession.

  Marlon Brando

  Funny, Acting, April

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

  Marlon Brando

  Money, Hollywood, Moral

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

  Marlon Brando

  World, Littles, Way

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Jan 26, 2012

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• George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, Wrath, Hatred

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• I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

  Marlon Brando

  Motivational, Dancing, Fool

  "Fictional character: Don Corleone". "The Godfather", 1972.

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Bamboo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, Long, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

  Marlon Brando

  Mean, Purpose, Cents

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• Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere

  Marlon Brando

  Girl, Believe, Expression

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• The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

  Marlon Brando

  Stars, Rights, People

  "Songs My Mother Taught Me". Autobiography by Marlon Brando and Robert Lindsey, 1994.

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• I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

  Marlon Brando

  Money, Mind, Complaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.

  Marlon Brando

  People, Ass, Palms

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