Marlon Brando Quotes
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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.
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If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
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I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
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You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.
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An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
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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.
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Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.
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I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
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Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
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Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me. 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.
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The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
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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.
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
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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.
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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.
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
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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.
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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?