Marlon Brando Quotes (25 Quotes)

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

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

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

My mind is always soothed when I imagine myself sitting on my South Sea island at night,

I went home and did some rehearsing to satisfy my curiosity about whether I could play an Italian. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks, and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor. After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at Paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather.

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

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

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.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

I'd gotten to know quite a few mafiosi, and all of them told me they loved the picture because I had played the Godfather with dignity. Even today I can't pay a check in Little Italy.

Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character. (his feelings about one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from 'A Streetcar Named Desire')

He's the kind of guy that when he dies, he's going up to heaven and give God a bad time for making him bald.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

People ask that a lot. They say, 'What did you do while you took time out ' - as if the rest of my life is taking time out. But the fact is, making movies is time out for me because the rest, the nearly complete whole, is what's real for me. I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts.

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

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.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.