Marlon Brando Quotes - Page 2

When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

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

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 into as many females as possible.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.

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

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

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

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

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

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

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.

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 an empty and useless profession.

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

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

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

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere

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 the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

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