Marlon Brando Quotes
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Quotes to Explore
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I never read the tabloids.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.
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Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
