Marlon Brando Quotes

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

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money." —Marlon Brando”
― David DeBacco, The Sushi Chef

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”
― Sheana Ochoa, Stella! Mother of Modern Acting

“Life often functions in dull repetition, but humanity does not operate in patterns. Experiences are random to the point of them never happening again. People are different and they shift throughout space over time. Nothing may repeat. There is no one in a million. There is one in one. It was why no summer was the same. It was why some lips in history never got to test if they were good kissers. It was why Ali lost to Frazier but Frazier lost to Foreman. It is why film does not get another Marlon Brando and no music, however similar, can be compared to Debussy. To resurrect these greats is like trying to re-enter a lost dream. The shore motions toward the feet and never meets them exactly again.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Marlon Brando acted with passion. His mission was to act . . . and act as though he was not acting. His dialogue had this eloquence of supreme hauteur that singled him out as a winsome virtuoso of invaluable art.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Marlon’s worldly possessions went up for auction at Christie’s New York showroom a year after his death. Among the 320 objects were some knickknacks (Marlon preferred the Yiddish word chotchkes).”
― Stefan Kanfer, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando