Marlon Brando Quotes on Acting, Life, and Hollywood
Marlon Brando quotes about acting, life, fame, and Hollywood that reveal the mind of one of cinema’s greatest legends.
Marlon Brando
“Everything we do is tied to money. I am a commodity and I am fully aware of that.”
“No matter who you marry, you always wake up married to someone else.”
“An actor is a guy who, if you are not talking about him, he is not listening.”
“Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he is a poet… he is very easy to work with.”
– About director Bernardo Bertolucci.
“Chaplin is a man whose talents are so great that you have to bet on him. First of all, comedy is his backyard. He is a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedian of unparalleled talent.”
“Kazan is an interpretive director, the best director I have ever worked with… Most actors do not get any help from directors. Emotionally it helps, if you are working an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.”
– About director Elia Kazan.
“I don’t think I was built to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s in any man’s nature to be monogamous. Men are driven by genetically ordained impulses that they have no control over to distribute their seed.”
“No one tells me what to do.” That’s exactly how I’ve felt my whole life.”
“If a studio offered me as much money to sweep the floor as they do to act, I would sweep it. Who cares about the applause? I need applause to feel good about myself?”
“The close-up says it all, that’s when an actor shows what he’s learned, rehearsed. The behavior becomes more evident to the audience. In a close-up, the audience is inches away, and your face transforms on the stage.”
“I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been searching for my own way to repair the damage I have suffered from the beginning, as well as to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.”
“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It is a lazy life. The main benefit that acting has given me is the money to pay my psychoanalyst.”
“I don’t care if I am fat. If you still make the same money.”
“I don’t want to spread the peanut butter of my personality over the moldy bread of the commercial press.”
“If there is anything unsettling to the stomach, it is watching actors on television talking about their personal lives.”
“Privacy is not something I deserve, it is an absolute requirement.”
“The only reason I am in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to turn down the money.”
“I wonder if people would applaud me if I were a good plumber.”
“You can sit there and have a universal experience, of fear, of anger, of tears, of love, and I found that your audience is really making you act.”
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