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If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
MARLON BRANDO The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
GEORGE A. ROMERO The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
GEORGE A. ROMERO Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you ca...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon ...
MICHAEL HORSE Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.
CLIFTON DAVIS Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather...
LORETTA SWIT At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got ...
TRAVIS KALANICK I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
BETTE DAVIS I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
ELI WALLACH When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from ...
CATE BLANCHETT My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
LARRY BISHOP You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i...
JIM HENSON I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
ELIA KAZAN If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the a...
ALICE COOPER When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
CHARLES FLEISCHER Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough w...
BARBRA STREISAND If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
LEE MARVIN If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who gi...
CESAR CHAVEZ Most actors are like, 'I want to be more like Marlon Brando.' But when I was a little kid, I...
LUCAS TILL If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Sh...
TOM HARDY As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan...
HALSEY My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zea...
MARTIN HENDERSON 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s...
TY WARNER If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business...
DANNY MEYER If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you...
CHUCK BERRY When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it&#...
CATE BLANCHETT I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it...
VANESSA BAYER I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard ...
DAVID NEVINS You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive m...
MARILYN MONROE Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree ...
ARTIE LANGE I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with...
SAFFRON BURROWS It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
LYKKE LI I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Har...
ROBERT DE NIRO If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn som...
ORNETTE COLEMAN When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can r...
LAURA BRANIGAN It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th...
MARK RUFFALO Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars do...
IAN MCKELLEN When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER If you want an audience start a fight.
PROVERB If you want an audience start a fight.
IRISH PROVERB With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: t...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; j...
LINDSEY WIXSON You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it...
HALLE BERRY When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.
WILLIAM FORSYTHE And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can giv...
BILLY OCEAN I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it'...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to ...
ELLEN STOFAN The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience...
DAVID STEINBERG I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
MICHAEL CAINE If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
TEDDY PENDERGRASS Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a ...
ROBERT HASS If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an eas...
LARRY KING I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowaday...
ANSEL ELGORT Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can ma...
TROY CARTER I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're mov...
JANE PAULEY If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollar...
ADAM MCKAY As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like ...
RYAN GOSLING If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not ...
SUSAN HOWATCH We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and ...
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they ap...
DANE COOK If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
BEN LEWIN If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn...
JOHN HURT No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audien...
NAIMA ADEDAPO I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a s...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you...
LINDA EVANS Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audie...
JENNA ELFMAN I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really...
ADAM CAROLLA It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if yo...
BEBE REXHA Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work ...
BARBRA STREISAND I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
IRVIN KERSHNER You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope ...
DANIEL H. WILSON I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to ...
VICTORIA BECKHAM Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves...
HOLLY HUNTER You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h...
GARY SHERMAN When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them s...
HARRY BROWNE You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've be...
KEANU REEVES We just learned about this fetish where guys just give women money and know that they are spending t...
NIKKI GLASER If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of t...
KEVIN MCCARTHY I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando w...
JOAN COLLINS I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If...
CLINT EASTWOOD You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you'r...
TANA FRENCH But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks,...
JAMIE FOXX When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stan...
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