Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Marlon Brando
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.
We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.
I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.
The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.
Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
I only mean forty per cent of what I say.
People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
?We only have so many faces in our pockets
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life
The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.
All I want to be is normally insane.
Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Acting is an empty and useless profession.
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
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