Marlon Brando: We Need To Be Tender Toward All People
Interview with Marlon Brando
Conducted by James Grissom
1990
I always had a
tender spot for frail women--emotionally frail women--who wandered about,
always looking surprised. These women reminded me of my mother, and so I felt
compelled to look after them. I felt tender toward them, in a way I didn't
toward others. Then I began to feel tender toward all people who looked a
little frail and a little lost. And then I reached an age when everyone--I mean
everyone--looked a little frail and a little lost, and then I was able to feel
tender--to feel some love and respect--toward all people. The flawed, wonderful
person who was my mother is, I guess, inside all people, and so we need to be
tender toward all people. It is good for them and it is good for us. It should
not have taken me this long to feel this way.
© 2014 James Grissom
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