Brando Quotes

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep.

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando... the cat not the man.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.