I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's…

— Ian Holm

I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And…

— Michael Gambon

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

— Gene Kelly

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.

— Matt Bomer

I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do.…

— Hugh Laurie

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Robert De Niro

I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of…

— Joan Collins

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

— Clifton Davis

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons'…

— Eric Andre

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

— Elia Kazan

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

— George A. Romero

I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American…

— Italo Zucchelli

“Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!" Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?" -Peter Manso illustrates the brash…

— Peter Manso

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are…

— Frederick Lenz