Marlon Brando - Life Quotes

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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.

Marlon Brando
I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent … But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

Marlon Brando
I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Marlon Brando
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

Marlon Brando
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

Marlon Brando
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.

Marlon Brando
This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis — and people of good will — in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

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

Marlon Brando
Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

Marlon Brando