Marlon Brando
SiFe I-II
SiFe I-II
SiFe I-II
SiFe I-II
SiFe I-II
Brando: "I am myself, and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain myself, I will do it."
Brando: "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?"
Brando: "I have always had an unwavering curiosity about people - what they feel, how they're motivated. I have always made it my business to find out. I am endlessly absorbed by human motivations."
Brando: "I've never had any respect for Hollywood. It stands for greed, avarice, phoniness, crassness."
Brando: "If you’ve never known love, you never know where it is, you don’t know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it."
Brando: "This is a false world. It’s been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success."
Brando: "An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer."
Brando: "People will like you who never met you in life, 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."
Brando: "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."
Brando: "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."
Brando: "If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash."
Brando: "If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out."
Brando: "I used to sit looking out the window at people walking by. I saw them for perhaps two or three seconds before they disappeared. In that flick of time I studied their faces, the way they carried their heads and swung their arms; I tried to absorb who they were - their history, their job, whether they were married, troubled or in love."
Brando: "I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past."
Brando: "Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
Brando: "I've always found animals easy to love because their love is unconditional. They are trusting, loyal and undemanding except in wanting love in return."
Brando: "The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them."
Brando: "“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."
Brando: "That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money."
Brando: "I don’t see anybody as evil. When you start seeing people as evil, you’re in trouble."
Brando: "A sensitive person receives 50 impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; 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 too much."
Brando: "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."
Brando: "Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite."
Brando: "All I want to be is normally insane."
Brando: "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."
Brando: "Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox."
Brando: "If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle."