Listen to Me Marlon Page #6

With an attitude,

with a word, with a look.

I don't like cops.

Be surprising.

Figure out a way to do it

that has never been done before.

You gotta put something down,

you gotta make some jive.

Don't you know what I'm talking about?

You want to stop that movement

from the popcorn to the mouth.

Cry "Havoc,"

and let slip the dogs of war.

Get people to stop chewing.

That this foul deed

shall smell above the earth.

The truth will do that.

Damn, damn, damn, damn.

When it's right, it's right.

You can feel it in your bones.

Then you feel whole,

then you feel good.

It was pre-sixties.

People were looking for rebellion,

and I happened to be at the right place

at the right time

with the right state of mind.

In a sense, it was my own story.

Rebelling for the sake of rebelling.

Hello, Mr Brando.

I hope you don't think

I'm too crazy for making this recording.

I wrote you a fan letter once,

but I don't know if you received it.

Once I saw a picture of you

with a white cat. Was it yours?

I'll bet you're one of the kindest,

most interesting fellows in Hollywood.

I suppose I'm judging the book

by the cover,

but perhaps I'm not too far wrong.

Mr Brando?

I hope this isn't too personal,

but I always say what I think,

so I won't stop now.

I admire you very much,

both as an actor and a person.

Many, many other people

feel the same way.

I think one of the main reasons

that I admire you

is because you aren't afraid

to be yourself,

instead of being a carbon copy

of everyone else.

It would be a pretty dull world

if everyone behaved in the same way,

so three cheers for you, Mr Brando.

I didn't intend to have

that extraordinary effect.

I became, very quickly, a cult hero.

And now I know that you're as anxious

as I am to find out what actor

has won the Oscar

for the best performance of this year.

The winner is

Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront.

Marlon Brando,

an actor of very considerable talent.

The youngest actor

ever honoured in this way.

When I saw the picture finally,

I was so embarrassed,

so disappointed in my performance.

It's much heavier than I imagined.

It's like carrying a monkey around

on your back.

They're asking me to put the finger

on my own brother.

It's a very strange thing

this business of storytelling.

You don't always know when you're good.

You wanna hear my philosophy of life?

Do it to him before he does it to you.

People will mythologize you

no matter what you do.

There's something absurd about it,

that people go with hard-earned cash

into a darkened room

where they sit

and they look at a crystalline screen

upon which images move around

and speak.

And the reason they don't have light

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