Quotes from Marlon Brando

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.

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

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

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

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

What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

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.

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.

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

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

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

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.

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

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.

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

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis and people of good will in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

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.

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.

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

A lot of the old movie stars couldn't act their way out of a box of wet tissue paper, but they were successful because they had distinctive personalities. They were predictable brands of breakfast cereal: on Wednesdays we had Quaker Oats and Gary Cooper; on Fridays we had Wheaties and Clark Gable. They were off-the-shelf products you expected always to be the same, actors and actresses with likable personalities who played themselves more or less the same role the same way every time out.

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