Top 100 Brando's Quotes
#1. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley
#2. Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
Peter Fonda
#3. I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
Anita Loos
#4. [Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
Al Pacino
#5. To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.
Ty Warner
#6. You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
Corey Taylor
#7. One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
Peter Bart
#8. If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
Tom Hardy
#9. 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.
Marlon Brando
#11. When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
Eddie Marsan
#12. I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
Lee Marvin
#13. It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.
Marlon Brando
#14. The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
George A. Romero
#15. The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
Marlon Brando
#16. The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando
#17. James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.
Emile Hirsch
#19. 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
#20. 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.
Marlon Brando
#21. An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
#22. Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.
Johnny Depp
#23. 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
#24. There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger
what remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood.
Brando Skyhorse
#25. I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.
Richard Donner
#26. 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.
Marlon Brando
#27. An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!
Marlon Brando
#28. There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.
Johnny Depp
#29. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
Ryan Gosling
#34. 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.
Marlon Brando
#35. The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe ... It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.
Brando Skyhorse
#36. Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
Marilyn Monroe
#37. Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand
#38. I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.
Patti Smith
#39. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#40. Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"
Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"
-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.
Peter Manso
#42. 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
#43. I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.
Melissa Benoist
#44. 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.
Marlon Brando
#45. 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
#46. My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.
Martin Henderson
#47. If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
Marlon Brando
#48. Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando
#49. 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
#50. I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.
Jack Nicholson
#51. Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.
Marlon Brando
#52. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
Marlon Brando
#56. Beat sprouts, I croaked, ashamed I'd reached a point in my life where I had to make decisions like choosing between bean sprouts or potato chips (and then going with fucking bean sprouts!).
Brando Skyhorse
#57. A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.
Kenneth Anger
#58. But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
Thomas Haden Church
#59. 'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
Ian Holm
#60. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Marlon Brando
#61. Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
Brando Skyhorse
#62. He had all the rough and sultry appeal of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Clive Owen in Sin City. Russell Crowe in everything he did.
Kristan Higgins
#63. Horror ... and moral terror ... are your friends.
Marlon Brando
#64. Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
Marlon Brando
#65. Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.
Johnny Depp
#66. If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
Marlon Brando
#67. He secretly thinks he looks like Marlon Brando, but take a good look a young Marlin Perkins is more like it! Maybe that's what he sees in Annette Kelper - he's an animal lover.
David Sedaris
#68. 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
#69. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#70. 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
#71. In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando ... the cat not the man.
Tippi Hedren
#72. I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
Marlon Brando
#73. 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.
Marlon Brando
#74. I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.
Hugh Laurie
#75. I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
Dylan McDermott
#76. I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.
Mark Ruffalo
#77. The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
Marlon Brando
#78. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando
#79. 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
#80. Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
Marlon Brando
#81. 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.
Marlon Brando
#82. I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Elia Kazan
#83. I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
John Forsythe
#84. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando
#86. Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
Abbas Kiarostami
#87. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
#88. 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
#89. At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why,
Marlon Brando
#90. 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
#91. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Marlon Brando
#92. Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
Rex Reed
#93. I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.
Brett Ratner
#94. Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
James Caan
#95. ( ... 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
#96. When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
Eric Braeden
#97. It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
Marlon Brando
#99. Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Marlon Brando
#100. Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews ...
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