Marlon Brando Quotes - Page 3

I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.

You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!

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

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

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.

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.

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

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

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

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.

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

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

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.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

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.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

The close-up says everything.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.