Marlon Brando Quotes

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

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

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

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.

All I want to be is normally insane.

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.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

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

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

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.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

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

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

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.

It's a long climb up Fools' Hill.

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

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

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

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

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

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

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

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