Explore Quotes by Marlon Brando

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

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.

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

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

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

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.

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

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

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 close-up says everything.

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.

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

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.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

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.

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.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

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