Conversations With Brando Quotes

“Why one reads is very important. If you don’t have a good reason, if it’s just for escape, that’s all right, it’s like taking junk, it’s meaningless. It’s kind of an insult to yourself. Like modern conversation—it’s used to keep people away from one another, because people don’t feel assaulted by conversation so much as silence. People have to make conversation in order to fill up this void. Void is terrifying to most people. We can’t have a direct confrontation with somebody in silence—because what you’re really having is a full and more meaningful confrontation. It”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando

“It’s pathetic. It’s a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He’s constantly filling himself up.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando

“I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando