Top 100 Marlon Marlon Quotes
#1. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando
#2. 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
#3. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando
#5. I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.
Marlon Wayans
#6. 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
#7. Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.
Marlon Wayans
#8. Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.
Marlon James
#9. Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
Jim Fowler
#10. My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.
Marlon James
#11. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. - Lilith. Named you meself. Did you know Adam had a first wife before Eve? Called her Lilith, but the bitch was too headstrong so got rid of her, he did. Headstrong, another word for uppity.
Marlon James
#16. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Marlon Brando
#17. I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
Marlon Starling
#18. In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
Marlon James
#19. Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.
Marlon Wayans
#20. Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.
Marlon Riggs
#21. People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos.
Marlon James
#22. Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
Rex Reed
#23. 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
#25. ( ... 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
#26. My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
Marlon James
#27. 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
#28. Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
Marlon Wayans
#29. 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
#30. [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
#31. If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
Marlon James
#32. Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.
Anthony Quinn
#33. An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!
Marlon Brando
#34. - The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.
Marlon James
#36. There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.
Johnny Depp
#37. 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
#38. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.
Marlon James
#39. 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
#40. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system.
Marlon James
#44. 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
#45. I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.
Marlon James
#46. Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
Marlon Brando
#47. 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
#48. I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Elia Kazan
#49. 'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.
Marlon Wayans
#50. In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.
Marlon James
#51. I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
Marlon Brando
#52. 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
#53. I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.
Marlon James
#54. And killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.
Marlon James
#55. 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
#56. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.
Marlon James
#57. 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
#58. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#59. Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know.
Marlon James
#60. 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
#61. As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.
Marlon Riggs
#62. I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.
Kym Whitley
#63. 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
#64. Life's a video game stuck on hardest, no way to save, and no extra lives. Worst part? No manual either. - Marlon Samson
Ashleigh D.J. Cutler
#65. I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.
Marlon James
#66. - Do you know what we mean by Cold War?
- War don't have no temperature.
Marlon James
#67. 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
#68. I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!
Marlon Wayans
#69. I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
Marlon Wayans
#70. Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Marlon Riggs
#71. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.
Marlon James
#72. 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
#73. You sure you can handle big woman chat, pickney? You sure you ready for that journey? You think good before you answer. Because some people about to forget that me be the head bloodcloth nigger in here. Now, go peel two potato and don't draw me tongue out in this place.
Marlon James
#74. 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
#75. The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
Marlon Brando
#76. 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
#77. It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
Marlon Brando
#79. Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Marlon Brando
#80. Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews ...
Marlon Brando
#81. 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
#82. Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
Marlon Brando
#83. Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
#84. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.
Marlon James
#85. This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,
Marlon James
#86. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Marlon Brando
#87. I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
Marlon Wayans
#88. What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.
Marlon James
#89. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.
Marlon James
#90. Anything you want to know about Kingston's green versus orange war, everything you ever need to know about the rudeboy-cum-gunman is not in Bob Marley's lyrics or in Peter Tosh's but in Marty Robbins's "Big Iron." He's
Marlon James
#91. Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So
Marlon James
#92. I swear to God I can't remember when I had a handbag. I know for some woman it's like an eleventh finger and you don't even think about it, even if you change every day. But I can't remember the handbag either. Who can run with a handbag?
Marlon James
#93. Fucking hell. Shit sounds like I'm writing for ladies who lunch on Fifth Avenue. Unending vortex of ugly? Holy sensationalism, Batman! Who the fuck am I writing for? I could move in closer, get to the real Singer, but I'll just fail like every other journalist
Marlon James
#94. Something else that her mind answer before the question ask. She know the answer. She can't help nobody out of white man power, not even herself. The woman eye still asking. Lilith don't know how to fix her eye to say no, so she look at the man and the same question come over him face.
Marlon James
#95. What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
Marlon James
#96. Horror ... and moral terror ... are your friends.
Marlon Brando
#97. ...i need someone to practice my french on... uhm i mean... with.
Marlon Lodge
#98. Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.
Marlon James
#99. Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
Marlon Brando
#100. 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
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