150 Quotes by Marlon Brando

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don’t apologise, that’s my life.

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

Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o’clock in the morning and you’re not in school.

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, in general, is something most people think they’re incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I’ve ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don’t, or trying to hide something. It’s something everyone learns at an early age.

The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream. That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

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

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I’m sure will pass.