People often say that an actor ‘plays’ a character well, but that’s an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That’s what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

— Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Quotes

I thank you for not snoring.

— Marlon Brando

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

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

— Marlon Brando

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

— Marlon Brando

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

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

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

— Marlon Brando

An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.

— Marlon Brando

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

— Marlon Brando

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

— Marlon Brando

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews...

— Marlon 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.

— Marlon Brando

In being a loving son, I suppose I was trying to become a loved son.

— Marlon Brando

I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

— Marlon Brando

People often say that an actor ‘plays’ a character well, but that’s an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That’s what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

— Marlon 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.

— Marlon Brando

Maybe you’re desperate for love. Always have been in your life. But you’ve been distrustful of people. Is there anything about them that scares us, that’s dangerous, that’s going to hurt us? Because a lot of people are frightened to death of love.

— Marlon Brando

Every spring the meadow in front of the house became an ocean of canary-colored mustard blossoms, and when a wind came up, it was like watching a sea of rippling golden waves rising and falling with the breeze like breakers just before they pound into a reef.

— Marlon Brando
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