The quotations of

Marlon Brando

American actor

1924–2004

13 quotes, most often on Acting.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
- Money
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.
If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Acting
- Television
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.
- Acting
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
- Acting
An actor’s a guy, who if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.
The Observer (1956)
- Acting
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse — it’s a bum’s life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
The Only Contender, Gary Carey (1985), Ch.13
- Acting
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful it’s worse than having a skin disease.
- Acting
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
- Acting
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. 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.
New York Times (July 2, 2004)
- Acting
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.
Said in 1960, quoted in Marlon Brando, Ch. 11 (1974, rev. 1989), by David Shipman.
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.
Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994) p. 143
- Acting

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