Quotes by Marlon Brando - Page 2

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Acting
Expression
Impulse
Maturity
Neurotic
Quitting
Bum
Sign
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Life
Actors
Stomach
Television
Personal Lives
Unsettling
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Inspirational
Motivational
Order
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Men
Aries Man
Felt
Lines
Life Where Me
Life Me My Life
Picture
All My Life
Nobody
Life Me Picture
Exactly
Line
My Life
Tells
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People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.
Marlon Brando / Actor
People
Say Anything
Talking
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Inspirational
Motivational
Dedication
Duty
Problem
Significance
Actor
Full
Express
Grasp
Interpret
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Men
Real
Real Men
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I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Believe
Desire
Honor
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The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Girl
Camels
Octopus
Squids
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
As Much Money
Deciding
Pays
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The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Lying
Stupidity
Support
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If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
Marlon Brando / Actor
America
Majority
Taste
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Quality
Charm
Wit
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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?
Marlon Brando / Actor
Important Question
Question
The Most Important
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I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Ass
Palms
People
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Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Acting
Advantage
Social
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Absence
Love Family Me
Love Family Always
Passed
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If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Jobs
Successful
Wish
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(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Knees
Scar
Soul
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Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Guy
People
Thinking
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Incorrigible
Principal
Chronic
Disciplined
Sent
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Dream
Nightmare
Razors
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Women
Bamboo
Catching
Leather
Long
Necks
Snakes
Around
Away
Close
Got
Pole
Slip
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Love
Scabs
Sensitive
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Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Long
People
Want Something
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You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of a kike because the Jews are ever watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on the screen!
Marlon Brando / Actor
Jew
Race
Saws
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George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Hatred
Thinking
Wrath
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
England
Beneath
Caste
Countries
Developed
Dominate
Group
Tries
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Being Ignored
Childhood
Childhood Memories
Enjoyed
Ignored
Memories
Memories Childhood Me
Interested
Childhood Father Me
Pleased
Telling
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The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.
Marlon Brando / Actor
People
Rights
Stars
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Men
May
Numbers
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I put on an act sometimes, and people think I’m insensitive. Really, it’s like a kind of armor because I’m too sensitive. 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 / Actor
People
Thinking
Two
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Damage
Stories
Way
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I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Brother
Country
Thinking
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Forget
License
Melody
Never Forget
Song
Driver
Number
Hear
Lyric
Telephone
Telephone Number
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Band
Beer
Brando
Decided
Fifteen
Fourteen
Organized
Drums
Earn
Group
Leading
Wooden
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The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
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Men
Gun
Military
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I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Men
Female
Thinking
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Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Kids
Beer
People
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The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Actors
Faces
Reality
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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Children
Culture
Stories
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We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Devil
Opinion
People
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Morning
Night
Thinking
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Ethnic Groups
Granted
Groups
Indian
Minorities
Picture
Cliches
Simply
Ethnic
Generally
Motion
Motion Picture
Motion Picture Industry
Presented
Realize
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Eight
Hurt
Sensitive Person
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I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Kings
Dust
Thinking
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Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere
Marlon Brando / Actor
Girl
Believe
Expression
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Beach
Lying
Stars
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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.
Marlon Brando / Actor
Hate
Real
Thinking
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