A Quote by Marlon Brando

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

Marlon Brando

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Applaud Good Me People Plumber Would

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Marlon Brando
American - Actor
April 3, 1924 - July 1, 2004

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.

Hilary Hahn

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Emile Zola

I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'

Joe Wurzelbacher

People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.

Mike Tyson

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.

Marina Abramovic

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

William Shakespeare

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

Nell Newman

Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn't move out until I was 29!

Ray Romano

I am a plumber. Just a plumber.

Joe Wurzelbacher

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Denis Waitley

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Robert B. Parker

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

Eleanor Mondale

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.