Top 18 Marlon Brando Quotes

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum‘s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor‘s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

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.

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.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

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

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.

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.

If we are not our brother‘s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

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

The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.

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

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

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

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.