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.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all ethnic groups. All minorities. All non-whites. People just simply don't realize. They take it for granted that that's the way people are going to be presented and that these cliches are just going to be perpetuated.

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

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

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.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

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

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

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.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

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.

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.

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.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

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.