Marlon Brando Quotes

On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.

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• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

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• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

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• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

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• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

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• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

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• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

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• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

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• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

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• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

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• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

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• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  

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• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

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• What is a farm but a mute gospel?

  

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• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

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• In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

  

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• You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.

  

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• I'm one of those people where, if I get a piece of advice from someone I look up to and respect, I'll really listen to it.

  

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• If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.

  

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• As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

  

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• I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

  

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• On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.

  

  Marlon Brando
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