Quotes from Marlon Brando

the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

I've always found animals easy to love because their love is unconditional. They are trusting, loyal and undemanding except in wanting love in return.

I realize that to forgive with your mind is not always to forgive in your heart.

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 a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son.

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

My sisters were either still at school or with friends, my mother was out drinking and my father was out whoring. As a result, I sought—as I still do— affection, loyalty and friendship from animals.

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I'd been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don't remember why

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