Best 79 quotes of Marlon Brando on MyQuotes

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.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

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

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.

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

All I want to be is normally insane.

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

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

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

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

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.

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

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere

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

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.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

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.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

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

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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.

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.

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

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

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.

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

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.

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

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

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.

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.

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.