Marlon Brando
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.Collection: Money
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.Collection: Money
There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.Collection: Money
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.Collection: Courage
Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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?
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
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.
I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.
I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.
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.
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.
At fourteen or fifteen, I decided to earn my living when I grew up playing drums made from wooden beer kegs and leading a group called Keg Brando and His Kegliners. We organized a little band, but it didn't last long and didn't make any money.
Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.
Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.Collection: Way
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.Collection: Life
Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.Collection: Momentum
All I want to be is normally insane.Collection: Insane
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.Collection: Morning
Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.Collection: Success
Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Hate
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.Collection: Successful
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Stories
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.Collection: Inspirational
We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!Collection: Squares
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.Collection: Quality
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Hurt
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?Collection: People
We only have so many faces in our pocketsCollection: Motivational
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.Collection: Beach
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Dream
Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.Collection: Actors