Quotes from Marlon Brando

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

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

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

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

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

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

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

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

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is 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.

Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.

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

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.

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.

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

The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.

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

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

I thank you for not snoring.

The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.