Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor and film director with a career spanning 60 years, during which he won the Oscar for Best Actor twice. He is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Profoundly inspirational Marlon Brando quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Marlon Brando Quotes
Regret is useless in life. It’s in the past. All we have is now. 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
Only the one who walks his own way can’t be overtaken. Marlon Brando
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite. Marlon Brando
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. Marlon Brando
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. Marlon Brando
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando
I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando
All I want to be is normally insane. Marlon Brando
Regret is useless in life. It’s in the past. All we have is now. Marlon Brando
Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger. 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
If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. Marlon Brando
We only have so many faces in our pockets. 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
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. Marlon Brando
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure. Marlon Brando
If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. Marlon Brando
Nobody becomes a character. You can’t act unless you are who you are. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
It really don’t matter what you’re thinking about, as long as you’re thinking about something. Marlon Brando
That’s a part of the sickness in America, that you have to think in terms of who wins, who loses, who’s good, who’s bad, who’s best, who’s worst. I don’t like to think that way. Everybody has their own value in different ways, and I don’t like to think who’s the best at this. I mean, what’s the point of it? Marlon Brando
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer. Marlon Brando
In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son. Marlon Brando
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you. Marlon Brando
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. 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
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. 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
At Field Elementary School in Omaha, I’d been the only one in my class to flunk kindergarten; I don’t remember why. Marlon Brando
We only have so many faces in our pockets. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Maybe you’re desperate for love. Always have been in your life. But you’ve been distrustful of people. Is there anything about them that scares us, that’s dangerous, that’s going to hurt us? Because a lot of people are frightened to death of love. Marlon Brando
I only mean forty percent of what I say. Marlon Brando
Every spring the meadow in front of the house became an ocean of canary colored mustard blossoms, and when a wind came up, it was like watching a sea of rippling golden waves rising and falling with the breeze like breakers just before they pound into a reef. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. Marlon Brando
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. Marlon Brando
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. Marlon Brando
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. Marlon Brando
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite. Marlon Brando
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber? Marlon Brando
The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England. Marlon Brando
It’s the hardest thing in the world to accept a little success and leave it that way. Marlon Brando
If the vacuum formed by Dr. Martin Luther King’s death isn’t filled with concern and understanding and a measure of love, then I think we all are really going to be lost here in this country. Marlon Brando
Acting is an empty and useless profession. Marlon Brando
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money. Marlon Brando
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox. Marlon Brando
All I want to be is normally insane. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando
The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda. Marlon Brando
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Everybody ought not to turn his back on the phenomenon of hatred in whatever form it takes. Marlon Brando
We don’t go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go! Marlon Brando
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening. Marlon Brando
In a close up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money. Marlon Brando
I don’t know what people expect when they meet me. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Everybody has their own value in different ways, and I don’t like to think who’s the best at this. I mean, what’s the point of it? Marlon Brando
I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse. Marlon Brando
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. Marlon Brando
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer. Marlon Brando
We’d all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know? Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Only the one who walks his own way can’t be overtaken. Marlon Brando
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It’s the ultimate hustle. Marlon Brando
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one. Marlon Brando
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite. Marlon Brando
People will like you who never met you in life, 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. Marlon Brando
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. 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
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. Marlon Brando
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all round incorrigible. Marlon Brando
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are lies, stupidity, Money grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility. Marlon Brando
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. Marlon Brando
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. Marlon Brando
Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11 o’clock in the morning and you’re not in school. Marlon Brando
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity. Marlon Brando
This is a false world. It’s been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success. 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
