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 BrandoThe only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon BrandoWhat might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Marlon BrandoI 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 BrandoPeople 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.
Marlon Brando