Marlon Brando Quotes

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

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

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

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

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

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

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

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.

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.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

All I want to be is normally insane.

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

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

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

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

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.

The close-up says everything.

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

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

I thank you for not snoring.

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.

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.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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