“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.” IfsThinkingWantReasonCareActionFormToo MuchHappenedKingsRaisesDon't CareDustRhetoricLutherShufflingRobert F Kennedy 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
“If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.” IfsWantGivingFantasyAudienceBloodUltimateWant SomethingHustleGiving Blood 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
“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” WantBelieveImportantRememberFacesGirlYouthExpressionFameDiedElsewhereRemember When Author:Marlon Brando
“The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.” MenWantMindBodyIndividualMilitaryGunMachinesAimTrainSoldierUnitsTelephonesPredictabilityMachine Guns Author:Marlon Brando
