Top 100 Quotes About Marlon Brando
#1. The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.
Marlon Brando
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.
Marlon Brando
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
Marlon Brando
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.
Marlon Brando
#14. Horror ... and moral terror ... are your friends.
Marlon Brando
#15. 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
#16. Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
Marlon Brando
#17. Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
Marlon Brando
#18. 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
#19. Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews ...
Marlon Brando
#20. Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
Marlon Brando
#22. It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.
Marlon Brando
#23. 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
#24. ( ... 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
#25. 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
#26. Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
Rex Reed
#27. What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
Marlon Brando
#28. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.
Eli Wallach
#32. 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
#34. If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando
#35. 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
#36. I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Elia Kazan
#37. 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
#38. Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.
Marlon Brando
#39. 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
#40. 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
#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. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando
#43. 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
#44. There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.
Johnny Depp
#45. An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!
Marlon Brando
#46. [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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.
Johnny Depp
#50. An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
Lee Marvin
#54. It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.
Marlon Brando
#55. The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
George A. Romero
#56. The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
Marlon Brando
#57. The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando
#58. 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
#60. 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
#62. I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.
Johnny Depp
#63. 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
#64. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando
#65. I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
Marlon Brando
#66. Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet ... he is very easy to work for.
Marlon Brando
#67. 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
#68. Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando
#69. Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
Albert Hammond Jr.
#70. If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
Marlon Brando
#71. I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.
Johnny Depp
#72. Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.
Marlon Brando
#73. 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
#74. [Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
Roger Ebert
#75. Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
Roger Ebert
#76. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Marlon Brando
#78. Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.
Martin Sheen
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#83. I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.
Marlon Brando
#84. [...] I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart.
Marlon Brando
#85. Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.
Marilyn Monroe
#86. Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
Marlon Brando
#87. 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
#88. You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Leonard Cohen
#89. 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
#91. If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
Gene Kelly
#92. Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
#93. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.
Robert Lacey
#94. Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
Marlon Brando
#95. ... there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.
Martin Sheen
#96. 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
#97. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
#98. Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.
Marlon Brando
#99. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#100. You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes
Corey Taylor
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