Marlon Brando Quotes

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

( ... the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here ... and uh i got a scar on my knee ... and uh a few scars on my soul.

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

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

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

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.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

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.

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.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

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.

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.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.

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.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

[...] My sisters were either still at school or with friends, my mother was out drinking and my father was out whoring. As a result, I sought - as I still do - affection, loyalty and friendship from animals.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

I thank you for not snoring.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

Every spring the meadow in front of the house became an ocean of canary-colored mustard blossoms, and when a wind came up, it was like watching a sea of rippling golden waves rising and falling with the breeze like breakers just before they pound into a reef.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

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.

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

It must have been spring because the big tree in front of the house was shedding pods with two wings like a dragonfly, On days when there wasn't any wind, they would spin around in the air as they drifted softly to the ground.
I watched them float all the way down, sitting with my neck craned back until my mouth opened and holding out my hand just in case, but they never landed on it. When one hit the ground I'd look up again, my eyes darting, waiting for the next magical event, the sun warming the yellow hairs on my head.
Waiting like that for the next magic was as good a moment as any other that I can remember in the last sixty -five years.

[...] I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart.

At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why,

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

The close-up says everything.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.

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.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews ...

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.