Quotes from Marlon Brando

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

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

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

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

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

We only have so many faces in our pockets

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

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

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

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

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