Quotes from Marlon Brando

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.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski.

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.

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.

If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor.

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

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

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.

All I want to be is normally insane.

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

We create a persona, a building holding all the apartments that are our quirks and our dreams and our desires, and we walk around the world hoping to connect, but hoping, above all, to not be hurt.

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

The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

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

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

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

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

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

Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

We only have so many faces in our pockets

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.

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

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.