Listen to Me Marlon Page #6

because he's never dug it.

And I am here to try to dig it.

King was in Memphis at the time.

He was striking for a small wage

increase for garbage collectors,

which was one of the best jobs

a black man could get.

But I want you to know tonight

that we as a people

will get to the Promised Land.

That speech where he says,

"I've been up to the mountain

and I've seen the Promised Land."

So I'm happy tonight,

I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man.

"I don't know

if I'm gonna get there with you,

but I am not afraid tonight."

God, I still remember that.

Ah, Jesus. That's terrible.

He knew he was going to get killed.

Have you considered that

you may suffer bodily harm yourself?

Yes.

I'm standing up,

not for the black race,

I'm standing up for the human race.

All men are created equal.

This is life and death,

this is real life.

We're talking about human relations,

we're talking about human rights,

racial issues and that's why I care.

Get any and all reports from the

South Pacific Commission in respect to

discovering what plants grow well

on atolls.

How to grow more vegetables

than you can imagine.

And whatever there is on wind power.

We'll get the full library

of information

from the South Pacific Commission.

It was after Mutiny on the Bounty.

I was up in the mountains on Tahiti.

And this guy said, "Do you see

that little island out there?"

And I said, "No, I can't see it."

He says, "Can't you see it?"

"It's called Tetiaroa."

I never was in a place that told me

to quit running the way this place does,

the way these people do.

If I've come closer to a sense

of peace, it would be there.

I didn't think of myself

as an owner of the island,

I just thought that I'd paid

for the privilege of visiting there.

I had nothing to give to them.

They had everything to give to me.

They don't care who you are,

they don't care what you do.

They don't know

that you're a movie star.

They couldn't care less.

You cannot lay dollars down

on the table and buy their soul.

Very warm, loving people.

They come up and put their arm

around you,

come and kiss you for no reason at all.

They just take love for granted.

Is there any actress

that you've especially enjoyed

working with, and why?

That is funny.

Don't look at me.

If you took some kid

and you brought him up in Tahiti,

he'd be a completely different kid.

He wouldn't have this cruel, mean

society killing him every day,

killing the life out of him.

All these kids of mine

are filled with love from Tahiti.

Here comes Cheyenne.

Hi, honey. She's going to give you

a little song here.

Ready?

Ah, beautiful.

That's my very favorite song.

I love to hear you sing that.

Tahitians have the beauty

of sleeping children.

And when they waken,

they will waken into the nightmare

that the white man lives in,

the nightmare of the want of things.

Hello. Don Wagner.

If you're back from vacation,

give me a call.

I want to get a script to Marlon Brando.

United Artists gave me your number.

We're trying to locate you, Marlon,

and I don't know where you are.

If you get the message,

can you talk to us a little bit?

Hello?

Hello? I can't believe

there isn't somebody there. Hello?

Sh*t.

I'm interested in making enough money

so I can say "f*** you" to money,

but that's all.

Acting afforded me

the opportunity of time.

I didn't have to do anything.

I only had to do it once a year

for three months at the most.

It became just a way of making a living.

You're certainly unprincipled.

Lying and cheating

come naturally to you.

You're completely without moral qualms.

Yeah, you see, everybody's got

a good side if you look for it.

Lying for a living,

that's what acting is.

All I've done is just learned

how to be aware of the process.

All of you are actors.

And good actors,

because you're all liars.

When you're saying something

you don't mean,

or refraining from saying something

that you really do mean,

that's acting.

Let me give you an example.

You're coming home, four o'clock

in the morning, reeking of whiskey,

and there she is, waiting at

the top of the stairs, your wife.

You wouldn't believe me, sweetheart.

You wouldn't believe

what happened to me.

Your mind is going 10,000 mph.

You're lying at the speed of light.

You're lying to save your life.

The last thing in the world

you want her to know is the truth.

You lie for peace,

you lie for tranquility,

you lie for love.

So, we all act.

Some people get paid for that.

In my experience, with the camera,

if you're a liar

or you're telling a lie,

you better be able to do it

with consummate skill.

If you're not thinking properly,

if you're not in your part,

it just shows up and there's nothing

you can do about it.

I was ridiculous in the part

that I played.

Everything went bad.

Take off those pajamas.

This is silly.

We'll see how silly this is.

What is your name?

Candy.

Probably the worst movie

I ever made in my life was called Candy.

Oh Jesus, Mother Mary.

How can you do that to yourself?

Haven't you got any f***ing pride left?

I've lost the audience.

You can see it

when you walk into a restaurant.

"Are you still making movies?"

If you've made a hit movie,

you get the full 32-teeth display.

You gotta be somebody.

If you're not anybody,

you've committed a sin.

And you're on your own.

You're on a goat trail way up,

and you're alone.

Hello?

Hello?

Sensitivity is too high.

The sensitivity is too high.

The neurotic individual's entire

self-esteem shrinks to nothing

if he does not receive admiration.

To be admired and to be respected

is a protection against helplessness

and against insignificance.

And because

he's continually sensing humiliation,

it will be difficult for him

to have anyone as a friend.

I used to think I'd never grow up.

I thought that life would go on forever.

And then I worried,

somewhere in the middle years,

life is going away and I haven't done

this and I haven't done that.

I've been denied that experience,

I've denied myself that experience.

There was a famous dancer, Ulanova.

And she asked what would be her dream.

"If I can dance for one minute,

perfectly...

that is all I would ever ask."

Francis Coppola wanted me

for the part of the The Godfather,

but the studio was fighting it.

It was demeaning to do a screen test,

but I needed a part at that time.

I wasn't sure

I could play that part either.

I got some cotton and I put some here,

little bit of cotton down there.

And the first thing you know,

I'm talking like this.

Like I took a shot

in the throat or something.

Mumbled my way through it.

The greatest fear an actor has is fear.

How you're gonna be judged.

I don't wanna get caught trying,

I don't wanna get caught being afraid

that my story, my pretending,

my lie

is going to be disbelieved.

That's gonna steal

your performance away.

You have to look at the cameraman,

the producer lurking in the corner

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