Brando Quotes - Page 2

• As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

  Ryan Gosling

  Kids, Guy, Sound

  "October Release: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams". www.wmagazine.com. September 23, 2010.

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• [Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

  Roger Ebert

  Guy, Waiting, Shadow

  Source: www.aparchive.com

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• Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

  Roger Ebert

  Actors, Influential, Century

  Source: www.aparchive.com

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• Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.

  Ethan Hawke

  Imagination, Trying, Directors

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

  Ansel Elgort

  Stars, Scripts, Action

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• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Eye, Thinking

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• I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.

  Robert Davi

  First Love, Guy, Singing

  "Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

  Melissa Benoist

  Couple, Past, Thinking

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• You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes.

  Corey Taylor

  Eye, California

  "Song: "Eyeless"". 1999.

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• Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

  Rex Reed

  Art, Sound, Paper

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• I got in my car and followed [Marlon Brando] down to Chinatown, and got about twelve shots. Brando called me over and said, What else do you want that you don't have already? And I said, I'd like a picture without the sunglasses. He said no and punched me right in the jaw, It was so fast I didn't see it coming. Blood was gushing out of my mouth. I drove to Bellevue. The jawbone and five teeth were broken... To this day he has scars on his knuckles from my teeth.

  Ron Galella

  Blood, Broken, Car

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• I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Thinking, Fantasy, Week

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.

  Tod Goldberg

  Sexy, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody.

  Dennis Hopper

  Acting, Hollywood, Dean

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Father, Thinking, Two

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• I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

  James Dean

  School, People, House

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• Gregory Peck was so charismatic. I saw a woman fall down - fall down! - when she saw him in a restaurant. And Brando. We were in London, and by then he was about 380 pounds. There was a gorgeous waitress, and off he went, in direct competition with me for this young girl's attention, speaking French, making her blush.

  Val Kilmer

  Girl, Fall, Competition

  "The Iceman Come Backeth". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 28, 2006.

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• I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Stars, Quality, Alive

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• I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

  Johnny Depp

  Couple, Practicals, Jokes

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.

  Johnny Depp

  Opposites, Justice, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

  Johnny Depp

  Crazy, Opposites, Ideas

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Play, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

  Matt Bomer

  Tycoons, Lasts, Speak

  "Matt Bomer on 'The Last Tycoon' and His Long-Gestating Montgomery Clift Biopic". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

  Anita Loos

  Horse, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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