Top 20 Marlon Brando Quotes

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There isn't anything that pays you as much money as act

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
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
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando
The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
Marlon Brando
I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
Marlon Brando
That’s the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.
Marlon Brando
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
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
If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
Marlon Brando
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
An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.
Marlon Brando
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
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
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
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon 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.
Marlon Brando
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