Marlon Brando famous quotes

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
-- Marlon Brando

#Confusion #Size #Talent

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
-- Marlon Brando

#Actors #Monkeys

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

#Brother #Executioners #Keepers

Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
-- Marlon Brando

#Real #Real Men #Men

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
-- Marlon Brando

#Order #Acting #Actors

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets
-- Marlon Brando

#Pockets #Faces

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
-- Marlon Brando

#Country #Brother #Thinking

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

#Blood #Giving #Hustle

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

#Acting #Faces #Your Face

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Love #Sensitive #Certain

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
-- Marlon Brando

#Way #Walks

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
-- Marlon Brando

#Regret #Past #Useless

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
-- Marlon Brando

#Lying #Stupidity #Support

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Men #Numbers #May

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Morning #Night #Thinking

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!
-- Marlon Brando

#Race #Saws #Jew

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

#Acting #Pay #Benefits

I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.
-- Marlon Brando

#Thinking #Two #People

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Dream #Razors #Nightmare

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
-- Marlon Brando

#Too Much #Ruins

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.
-- Marlon Brando

#Long #Fool #Hills

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
-- Marlon Brando

#Classic #Refuse #Offers

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

#Life #Actors #Television

(...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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Soul #Knees #Scar

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

#Actors #Poet #Entertainers

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

#Dedication #Acting #Actors

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
-- Marlon Brando

#Character #Theatre #Who You Are

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere
-- Marlon Brando

#Girl #Believe #Expression

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
-- Marlon Brando

#Privacy

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

#Book #Height

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Military #Gun #Men

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
-- Marlon Brando

#Motivational #Dancing #Fool

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
-- Marlon Brando

#Jobs #Successful #Skins

All I want to be is normally insane.
-- Marlon Brando

#Insane #Want #Sanity

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.
-- Marlon Brando

#Littles #Way #World

I thank you for not snoring.
-- Marlon Brando

#Snoring

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Men #Thinking #Female

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Thinking #People #Guy

Acting is an empty and usless profession.
-- Marlon Brando

#Funny #Acting #April

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

#Use #Agendas #Hollywood

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Beach #Stars #Lying

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
-- Marlon Brando

#Reality #Actors #Faces

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.
-- Marlon Brando

#Inspirational #Stronger #Knocked Down

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

#Acting #Social #Aspects Of Life

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
-- Marlon Brando

#Morning #School #Feelings

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

#Simple #Acting #Use

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

#Easy #Poet #Ability

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.
-- Marlon Brando

#Mean #Purpose #Cents

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Believe #Honor #Desire

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Hurt #Eight #Years

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

#Actors #Bores

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
-- Marlon Brando

#Philosophy #Hey #Doe

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
-- Marlon Brando

#Children #Culture #Stories

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

#Money #Hollywood #Moral

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.
-- Marlon Brando

#Acceptance #Two #People

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
-- Marlon Brando

#Maturity #Expression #Acting

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Stars #Rights #People

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews...
-- Marlon Brando

#Running #Hollywood #Jew

Horror... and moral terror... are your friends.
-- Marlon Brando

#Moral #Horror #Terror

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
-- Marlon Brando

#Eye #Pigs #Complaining

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Men #Aries Man #Lines

The close-up says everything.
-- Marlon Brando

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Talking #People #Say Anything

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
-- Marlon Brando

#Success #Excellence #Myth

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.
-- Marlon Brando

#Long #People #Acting

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
-- Marlon Brando

#Talking #Guy #Listening

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
-- Marlon Brando

#Successful #People #Hollywood

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

#Money #Mind #Fats

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Stories #Way #Damage

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.
-- Marlon Brando

#Snakes #Long #Bamboo

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

#Squares #Justice

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
-- Marlon Brando

#Tired #Hands #Waiting