Listen to Me Marlon Page #4

and so it's been a hard thing

sort of living that down.

There is nothing about me

that is like Stanley Kowalski.

I hate that kinda guy.

I absolutely hate that person

and I couldn't identify with it.

The brute, dark character that

represented the beasts and the animals.

They sent me to a psychiatrist.

They thought I was going nuts,

losing my mind.

Stella told me,

if you come to the theater

and you feel a hundred percent,

show eighty.

If you come and you feel sixty percent,

show forty.

If you come to the theater

and you only feel forty percent,

best to turn around and go home.

I was wondering if you have any plans

to return to the stage

in the near future.

No, I don't have any immediate

intentions of returning to the stage.

The shouts of freedom

are also the rattling of chains.

You seem to be such a restless man.

Eyes always darting.

I don't know,

I guess I've just got loose feet.

I infer from that that you

do not thoroughly enjoy your profession.

Or you don't enjoy it at all.

No, I think that people

do what they enjoy,

or else they don't do it.

People do what they want to do.

If there are adverse conditions

that surround my work,

they are not adverse enough

to make me change activities.

If I hadn't had the good luck

to be an actor,

I don't know what I would've been.

I'd have probably been a con man.

A good con man.

Tell smooth lies, give impressions

of things that he thinks,

or appears to think

that he doesn't think.

Since I don't do anything else well,

and up to this time I haven't decided

what else I would like to do,

I might as well put all my energies

into being as good an actor as I can.

Now will you turn your head for us?

Sure.

Now around the other way.

Now all the way around.

All right. Thank you and stay around.

Shakespeare said,

"There is no art to find

the mind's construction in the face."

And there should be such an art.

When the camera is close on you,

your face becomes the stage.

Your face is the proscenium arch

of the theater, thirty feet high.

And it sees all the little movements

of the face and the eye and the mouth.

You have the intensity to act.

I wanted very much

to be involved in motion pictures,

so I could change it

into something nearer the truth.

And I was convinced

that I could do that.

About my playing the tuba...

Seems like a lot of fuss

has been made about that.

In the '30s and '40s

you had a particular kind of acting.

You knew who you were gonna get

when you went to the movies.

Gary Cooper oats.

Shredded Wheat Bogart.

Clark Gable Crunchy Fruit Loops.

They were just like breakfast cereals.

The same in every role.

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