A biography for Marlon Brandohasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
“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 don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.”
“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.”
“I have eyes like those of a dead pig.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.”
“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.”
“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”