Marlon Quotes

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination. ~ Marlon Riggs

Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope. ~ Marlon James

I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both. ~ Marlon Wayans

But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning. ~ Marlon James

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death. ~ Marlon James

That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of her.'

'Yeah, but that Dexter couldn't shut his piehole either,' Marlon says. 'I mean, Christ. Artists and writers - let them kill each other off in cage matches; let God sort 'em out. ~ Dexter Palmer

Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you." ~Homer, The Book of Night Women ~ Marlon James

He said he had evidence that the Company was giving the opposition party money, which was just preposterous considering what bad form it would have been, trusting anybody in the Third World with money. ~ Marlon James

I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race. ~ Marlon James

Seem that if baby get left in manger he would scratch up, bite up and dead by the third day. But white people think this be the greatest thing. The baby grow up and they kill him, and white people think this be even greater. It make plenty sense that white people would get so much mirth and joy out of this 'cause nobody kill for fun like backra. ~ Marlon James

People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You can call her what they call her. ~ Marlon James

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck. ~ Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. ~ Marlon Brando

She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting black man ... ..Maybe if she start to think that she not black or white, then she won't have to care about neither man's affairs. Maybe if she don't care what other people think she be and start think about what she think she be, maybe she can rise over backra and nigger business, since neither ever mean her any good. Since the blood that run through her both black and white, maybe she be her own thing. But what thing she be? ~ Marlon James

I hate that just because I live here I'm supposed to live politics. And there's nothing you can do. If you don't live politics, politics will leave you. ~ Marlon James

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor. ~ Marlon Wayans

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. ~ Larry Bishop

Wearing Deni's huge vicuna coat with the si cap over my ears, in cold biting winds of December New York, Irwin and Simon led me up to the Russian Tea Room to meet Salvador Dali.
He was sitting with his chin on a finely decorated tile headed cane, blue and white, next to his wife at the Cafe table. He had a cane, blue and white, next to his wife at the Cafe table. He had a little wax moustache, thin. When the waiter asked him what he wanted he said 'One grapefruit...peenk!' and he had big blue eyes like a baby, a real or Spaniard. He told us no artist was great unless he made money. Was he talking about Uccello, Ghianondri, Franca? We didn't even know what money really was or what to do with it. Dali had already read an article about the 'insurgent' 'beats' and was interested. When Irwin told him (in Spanish) we wanted to meet Marlon Brando (who ate in this Russian Tea Room) he said, waving three fingers at me, 'He is more beautiful than M. Brando.'
I wondered why he said that but he probably had a tiff with old Marlon. But what he meant was my eyes, which were blue, like his, and my hair, which is black, like his, and when I looked into his eyes, and he looked into my eyes, we couldn't stand all that sadness. In fact, when Dali and I look in the mirror we can't stand all that sadness. To Dali sadness is beautiful. ~ Jack Kerouac

If a man call himself Rasta today, by next week that is him speaking prophecy. He don't have to be too smart either, just know one or two hellfire and brimstone verse from the Bible. Or just claim it come from Leviticus since nobody ever read Leviticus. This is how you know. Nobody who get to the end of Leviticus can still take that book seriously. Even in a book full of it, that book is mad as shit. Don't lie with man as with woman, sure I can run with that reasoning. But don't eat crab? ~ Marlon James

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery. ~ Marlon Wayans

That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device. ~ Marlon James

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ~ Bette Davis

You could have a family of one and still drive them apart. ~ Marlon James

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. ~ Robert Hass

Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting the air all the way down, grabbing onto clumps of nothing and begging once, just once, just goddamn once, Jesus, you sniveling son of a mongrel bitch, just once that air gives grip. ~ Marlon James

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. ~ Eli Wallach

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. ~ Marlon Brando

I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves. ~ Marlon James

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in. ~ Marlon James

A lot of women but they are all moving. It takes me a while to see that they are all getting something to give to the men, food, a stool, water, matches for their weed, more food, juice from big Igloos. Livication and liberation my ass, if I wanted to live in a Victorian novel I at least want men who know how to get a decent haircut. ~ Marlon James

...i need someone to practice my french on... uhm i mean... with. ~ Marlon Lodge

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. ~ Marlon Brando

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week. ~ Marlon Wayans

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are. ~ Marlon Wayans

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

Police only have to see that me don't have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing 'round decent people, and give me two choices. ~ Marlon James

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. ~ Marlon Brando

Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three. ~ Marlon James

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch. ~ John Forsythe

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time. ~ Arjun Rampal

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it ~ Marlon James

They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran. ~ Marlon James

You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck. ~ Marlon Wayans

The child is dead. There is nothing left to know. ~ Marlon James

Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness ~ Marlon James

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows. ~ Marlon Wayans

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. ~ Marlon James

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. ~ Marlon Brando

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood. ~ Marlon James

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong. ~ Marlon Wayans

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

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else? ~ Mike Medavoy

Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once. ~ Marlon James

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director. ~ Marlon Wayans

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go. ~ Marlon Wayans

Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans. ~ Marlon James

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it's some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing. If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours, then half hours, then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time to bite size. It's like dealing with losing a man. If you can bear it for one minute, then you can swallow two, then five, then another five and on and on. If I don't want to think about my life, I don't have to think about life at all, just hold for one minute, then two, then five, then another five, before you know it, a month can pass and you don't even notice because you've only been counting minutes. ~ Marlon James

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

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it. ~ Marlon Brando

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time. ~ Johnny Depp

It must have been spring because the big tree in front of the house was shedding pods with two wings like a dragonfly, On days when there wasn't any wind, they would spin around in the air as they drifted softly to the ground.
I watched them float all the way down, sitting with my neck craned back until my mouth opened and holding out my hand just in case, but they never landed on it. When one hit the ground I'd look up again, my eyes darting, waiting for the next magical event, the sun warming the yellow hairs on my head.
Waiting like that for the next magic was as good a moment as any other that I can remember in the last sixty -five years. ~ Marlon Brando

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill. ~ Marlon Wayans

Soldiers are fools not paid enough to be fools. ~ Marlon James

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized. ~ Marlon James

So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime. ~ Robert Lacey

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go! ~ Marlon Brando

People with a plan see and wait for the right time. ~ Marlon James

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator. ~ Marlon James

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. ~ Marlon Brando

I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right. ~ Marlon Starling

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. ~ Roger Ebert

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando! ~ Rebecca Hall

Devil has his part to play. ~ Marlon James

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre. ~ Marlon Wayans

Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film. ~ Marlon Wayans

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes ~ Corey Taylor

I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back. ~ Kym Whitley

I just need to fucking breathe ~ Marlon James

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. ~ Marlon James

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most. ~ Marlon Brando

If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero. ~ Danny Lyon

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. ~ Lee Marvin

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them. ~ Marlon Brando

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. ~ Marlon Brando

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart. ~ Marlon James

Me have a rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my woman I'll deal with you. Otherwise, fuck off. ~ Marlon James

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible. ~ Marlon James

Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void. ~ Marlon James

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are. ~ Marlon Brando

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. ~ Marlon James

That's the problem with peace. Peace make you careless. ~ Marlon James

Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. ~ Marlon James

See how the white womens goin' look and hear how white womens laugh in the colonies. She think of white flesh and black flesh, that really be brown flesh by blood and the two flesh melt into one flesh that don't know colour. Then Lilith wonder if she dreaming because dreaming is one thing God never allow negro to do. ~ Marlon James

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels. ~ Marlon James

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. ~ Johnny Depp

All the time she's silent. All the women were silent except the white one talking to Trent. If it wasn't for the red, green and gold and that the skirts are often denim, I'd think I was surrounded by Muslim women. ~ Marlon James

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. ~ Marlon Brando

Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So ~ Marlon James

Am slowly realizing that even though the Singer is the center of the story that it really isn't his story. Like there's a version of this story that's not really about him, but about the people around him, the ones who come and go that might actually provide a bigger picture than me asking him why he smokes ganja. ~ Marlon James

[...] I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart. ~ Marlon Brando