Top 126 Brando Quotes & Sayings

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

I'd like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they've treated Marlon Brando.

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes.

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

The first time I met Brando was on a street corner. I was 14. He was walking down the street, and I saw him coming, and I thought, 'It's Marlon Brando.' And he was wearing what turned out to be his outfit from 'On the Waterfront,' because he was shooting.

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

When I got the job on 'Cursed Child,' I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played.

I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.

Growing up, I loved films like 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and became a huge fan of Marlon Brando.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando... the cat not the man.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

I got in my car and followed [Marlon Brando] down to Chinatown, and got about twelve shots. Brando called me over and said, What else do you want that you don't have already? And I said, I'd like a picture without the sunglasses. He said no and punched me right in the jaw, It was so fast I didn't see it coming. Blood was gushing out of my mouth. I drove to Bellevue. The jawbone and five teeth were broken... To this day he has scars on his knuckles from my teeth.

Brando's one of the greats; what can you say?

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.

I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.