Brando RIP

Factoids and Quotes re: Marlon Brando:
"I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass."

"I don't want to spread the peanut butter of my personality on the mouldy bread of the commercial press."

"Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?"

Received more money for his short appearance as Jor-El in "Superman" (1978) than Christopher Reeve did in the title role.

Uses cue cards in many of his movies because he refuses to memorize his lines. His lines were written on the diaper of baby Kal-El in Superman (1978)

Refused to take a religious oath at his son's murder trial, citing reasons that he is an atheist.

On the set of The Score (2001) he referred to former Muppets director Frank Oz as "Miss Piggy".

Two years before Brando declined his Oscar for Best Actor in the 1972 movie, "The Godfather", he'd applied to the Academy to replace the one he'd won for "On the Waterfront" (1954), which had been stolen.