Marlon Brando citations

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“Tout ce ramdam autour du métier d’acteur n’a pas de sens pour moi. Tout le monde est acteur, on passe ses journées à jouer la comédie. Tout le monde a vécu des moments où on pense quelque chose, on sent quelque chose et on ne le montre pas. C’est ça être un acteur.”

“Pourquoi déteste-t-on les Noirs? Pourquoi fait-on preuve de discrimination envers les Indiens? Pourquoi dit-on dans le Sud-Dakota que AIM signifie Abrutis d’Indiens en Mocassins au lieu de American Indian Movement [Mouvement des Indiens américains]? Les gens ont des peurs inconscientes et des angoisses mal définies, peut-être parce qu’ils se sentent coupables, et ils s’accrochent comme une moule à son rocher. Ils sont bourrés de préjugés, ils accumulent de la haine, bien rangée dans un petit coin, et ils ne veulent pas qu’on la balaie avec des arguments logiques.”

“When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved them into signing fraudulent agreements that we called treaties which we never kept. We turned them into beggars on a continent that gave life for as long as life can remember. And by any interpretation of history, however twisted, we did not do right. We were not lawful nor were we just in what we did. For them, we do not have to restore these people, we do not have to live up to some agreements, because it is given to us by virtue of our power to attack the rights of others, to take their property, to take their lives when they are trying to defend their land and liberty, and to make their virtues a crime and our own vices virtues.”

“It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.”

“If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor. There isn't anything that pays you as well as acting while you decide what the hell you're going to do with yourself. Who cares about the applause? Do I need applause to feel good about myself?”

“There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”