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"If you hadn't seen him earlier on the stage (before watching his movies) you had no idea about the power of Brando's acting. I remember an acting teacher at Yale, Ms. Welch, who saw him in a play on its way to Broadway and she never knew Brando (initially) and said it was as if a leopard had come on the stage. And this man who looked like maybe a stagehand had wandered up. The combination of genes and genius that he had were such a high degree that it came smashing through the screen or out into your lap in the theatre."
"Psychologically a mess. Marlon may have in the same way that he was the greatest actor - a phrase he wouldn't allow anyone to use around him - was the greatest mess."
"A German friend had said: 'My mother when she saw the Young Lions with Brando and Dean Martin. (She said) We could not convince my mother who's 85, that that actor was not a German, and specifically from her part of Germany because no one had been able to reproduce the accent so faultlessly.'"
"When his success blossomed on Broadway as it did and then the films, he could have any movie he wanted without exception, he could do any play he wanted, anything from Henry VIII to King Lear to whatever he should've done and just...*sigh* the inelegant expression is: pissed it away."