Marlon Brando quotes

Marlon Brando was an American actor widely regarded as one of the greatest performers in film history. His innovative acting style helped shape modern cinema and inspired countless actors. He became famous for iconic roles in films such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Godfather." Here are 53 of his quotes:

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

Marlon Brando

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

Marlon Brando

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

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

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

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

Marlon Brando

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

Marlon Brando

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

Marlon Brando

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

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.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.

Marlon Brando

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis - and people of good will - in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

Marlon Brando

Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

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.

Marlon Brando

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

Marlon Brando

I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.

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