There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront."...
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Marlon Brando, Himself:
There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront." It had nothing to do with me. The audience does the work. They are doing the acting. Everybody feels like they're a failure. Everybody feels they could have been a contender.
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BRANDO There are times I know I did much better acting
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than in that scene from On the Waterfront
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You don't understand
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I coulda had class
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I coulda been a contender
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I coulda been somebody
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Instead of a bum
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Which is what I am let's face it
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BRANDO It had nothing to do with me
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The audience does the work
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they are doing the acting
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Everybody feels like they're a failure
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everybody feels they could've been a contender
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 182
Timestamp in movie: 00h 30m 47s
Uploaded: 25 November, 2022
Genres: documentary
Summary: With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
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Actors
00:31 I had a lot of loneliness
00:18 If you took some kid
00:25 The greatest fear an actor has is fear
00:22 We have this antiquated belief
00:04 My soul is a private place
00:07 I had the fear that everybody was dead
00:13 Now let your mind drift
00:07 I was interested to guess
00:09 I had a great feeling of inadequacy
00:15 BRANDO We develop the technique of acting very very early
00:18 If I have a scene to play
00:08 BRANDO Be surprising
00:12 Damn damn damn damn
00:16 There's something absurd about it
00:07 Inferiority
00:16 When what you are as a child is unwanted it's unwelcome
00:08 There are no artists
00:19 BRANDO Maybe you're desperate for love
00:06 The face can hide many things
00:06 I was given by my mother