Girl: `What’re you rebelling against, Johnny?’ Johnny: `Whaddya got?’ –as Johnny Strabler in “The Wild One”
“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) as Stanley Kowalski
“Hey, Stelllllla!”
“You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky, that’s all … To hold a front position in this rat race, you’ve got to believe you are lucky.”
“On the Waterfront” (1954) as Terry Malloy
“Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.”
“Guys and Dolls” (1955) as Sky Masterson
“I am not putting the knock on dolls. It’s just that they are something to have around only when they come in handy … like cough drops.”
“One-Eyed Jacks” (1961) as Rio
“You may be a one-eyed jack around here, but I’ve seen the other side of your face.”
“The Appaloosa” (1966) as Matt Fletcher
“The next time you point a gun at me, you better pull that trigger, because I’m going to blow you into so many pieces your friends will get tired of looking for you.”
“Well, I’ve done a lot of killin’. I’ve killed a lot of men and sinned a lot of women. But the men I killed needed killin’ and the women wanted sinnin’, and well, I never was one much to argue.”
“The Godfather” (1972) as Don Vito Corleone
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless. But not men.”
“Last Tango in Paris” (1972) as Paul
“Quo vadis, baby?”
“Apocalypse Now” (1979) as Col. Walter E. Kurtz
“The horror. The horror.”
“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor … and surviving.”
“What do you call assassins who accuse assassins?”
“You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.”
“The Island of Dr. Moreau” (1996) as Dr. Moreau
“I have seen the devil in my microscope, and I have chained him.”
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FILMS OF MARLON BRANDO INCLUDE:
* Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington’s picks as Brando’s best movie performances.
The Men, 1950
* A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
* Viva Zapata!, 1952
* Julius Caesar, 1953
The Wild One, 1954
* On the Waterfront, 1954
Desiree, 1954
Guys and Dolls, 1955
The Teahouse of the August Moon, 1956
Sayonara, 1957
The Young Lions, 1958
The Fugitive Kind, 1960
* One-Eyed Jacks, 1961 (also director)
Mutiny on the Bounty, 1962
The Ugly American, 1963
Bedtime Story, 1964
Morituri, 1965
The Chase, 1966
The Appaloosa, 1966
The Countess From Hong Kong, 1967
* Reflections in a Golden Eye, 1967
Candy, 1968
The Night of the Following Day, 1969
* Burn!, 1969
The Nightcomers, 1971
* The Godfather, 1972
* Last Tango in Paris, 1972
The Missouri Breaks, 1976
Superman, 1978
Apocalypse Now, 1979
The Formula, 1980
A Dry White Season, 1989
The Freshman, 1990
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, 1992
Don Juan DeMarco, 1995
The Island of Dr.Moreau, 1996
The Brave, 1997
Free Money, 1998
The Score, 2001
* Apocalypse Now Redux, 2001