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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating.

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler