Marlon Brando

“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.”

“With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.”

“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...”

“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 ban...”

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 j...”

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

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

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

“We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?”

“I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only...”

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

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

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