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Marlon Brando Trivia
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- While filming The Score (2001), he refused to be on the set at the same time as director Frank Oz.
- Liked to box. While performing as Stanley Kowalski in the stage version of "A Streetcar Named Desire", he would often persuade a member of the stage crew to spar with him in a room underneath the stage between his acts. During one of these impromptu boxing matches, Marlon's nose was broken so badly that it literally was split across its bridge. He managed to go on stage and finish the play, but was taken to the hospital immediately after.
- He attended a staging of 'Eugene O'Neil' 's autobiographical "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with an eye towards starring in a proposed film of the play. The play deals with the drug addiction of Mary Tyrone, modeled after O'Neil's own mother, which, along with her husband's miserliness and her oldest son's alcoholism, has blighted her youngest son's life. When asked his opinion of the play, Brando, whose mother was an alcoholic and had died relatively young in 1954, replied, "Lousy." Jason Robards, who originated the role of older son James Tyrone, Jr. in the original Broadway production in 1956, subsequently appeared in Sidney Lumet's 1962 movie.
- He was voted the 7th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
- He was voted the 15th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
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