Marlon Brando Quotes

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

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

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

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

All I want to be is normally insane.

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

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

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

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.

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

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

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

People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

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.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

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

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.