Marlon Brando Quotes

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Marlon Brando

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 3, 1924

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

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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.

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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 once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

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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.

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

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