Marlon Brando

The close-up says everything.

— Marlon Brando

All I want to be is normally insane.

— Marlon Brando

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

— Marlon Brando

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— 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

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

— Marlon Brando

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Marlon Brando

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased…

— Marlon Brando

You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful…

— Marlon Brando

I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the…

— Marlon Brando

The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus…

— Marlon Brando

Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with…

— Marlon Brando

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone…

— 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…

— Marlon Brando

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some…

— Marlon Brando

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even…

— Marlon Brando

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American…

— Marlon Brando

Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know…

— Marlon Brando

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability…

— Marlon Brando

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth…

— Marlon Brando

Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their…

— 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…

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

— Marlon Brando

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando