James dean Quote by Martin Sheen

Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was…

— Martin Sheen

Marlon Brando changed everything for actors. After him, everyone wanted to be Marlon. No one wanted to be a type: they all wanted to…

— Peter Bogdanovich

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

— Clifton Davis

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

— Johnny Depp

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

— Ansel Elgort

“the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?”

— Ira Levin

Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy…

— Johnny Depp

“[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery…

— Michael Haneke

[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

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

— Roger Ebert

[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…

— Al Pacino