“Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.” PeopleThinkingHelpingTodayGuyToughThink Of MeStanleyCoarseInsensitive Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleKnowsSeemsAssPalmsSlap Author:Marlon Brando
“People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantTryingMindDoeRealReasonHateFoundLosesEnemyWonderfulLike YouMetsReasonableHate YouExtremismLove HateAnathema Author:Marlon Brando
“Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.” PeopleKnowsWantKidsAsksDetailsBeerOperaSoapAmerican IndianAuschwitzSoap OperasLullaby Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleIfsIndividualOpinionOur LivesOffersDevilExcuseMythProofPreservesDislikeReverseDecency Author:Marlon Brando
“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.” PeopleHumansHuman BeingsSuccessfulHollywoodSuccessful People Author:Marlon Brando
“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.” PeopleIfsTwoRoomsAcceptanceHundredLike Me Author:Marlon Brando
“A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.” PeopleYearsMayPersonsStillsHelpingLastsCertainHurtSevenEightNineImpressionVulnerableMessAnalysisSensitiveFiftyNine YearsMessed UpScabsSensitive Person Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleAsksStarsRightsInfluenceSpecialPrivilegeCuriousEmpoweringMovie StarRights And Privileges Author:Marlon Brando
“Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingShowsAgeNightActingMorningOrdinaryTheatreIncapableOrdinary People Author:Marlon Brando
“People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.” PeopleWantSeemsTalkingSay Anything Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleWantLongActingMysteriousCraftsWant Something Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindTwoSometimesRoomsHundredLike MeSensitiveArmorInsensitive Author:Marlon Brando
