Top 82 Marlon Brando Quotes
#1. The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
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#4. To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
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#5. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
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#6. 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!
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#7. I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
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#8. Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
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#9. Horror ... and moral terror ... are your friends.
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#10. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
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#11. Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
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#12. If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
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#13. Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews ...
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#14. Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
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#15. It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
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#16. ( ... 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.
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#17. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
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#18. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
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#19. At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why,
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#20. 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.
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#22. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
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#29. An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
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#33. 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.
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#34. It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.
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#35. The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
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#36. The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
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#38. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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#42. I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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#43. Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
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#46. If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
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#47. Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
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#48. Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#53. I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.
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#54. [...] I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart.
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#55. Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
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#56. 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.
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#58. Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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#59. Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
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#60. Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.
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#61. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
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#63. The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
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#64. 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.
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#65. Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.
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#66. In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son.
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#67. Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.
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#71. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
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#76. 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.
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#77. The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
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#78. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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
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#81. We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!
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#82. I've always found animals easy to love because their love is unconditional. They are trusting, loyal and undemanding except in wanting love in return.
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