Marlon Brando Quotes

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.

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.

The close-up says everything.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

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.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

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.

I thank you for not snoring.

(...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.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

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.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

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.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

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.