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I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. -- Bette Davis
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble. -- Benicio Del Toro
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together. -- Uta Hagen
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront. -- George A. Romero
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. -- Harold Ramis
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? -- Barbra Streisand
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes -- Corey Taylor
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. -- Eli Wallach
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. -- Elia Kazan
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. -- Gene Kelly
Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit. -- Clifton Davis
It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes. -- Richard Donner
Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper. -- Rex Reed
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes. -- Humphrey Bogart
But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon. -- Evan Jones
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. -- John Forsythe
Im obsessed with Michael Fassbender. Hes unbelievable. I think hes a modern day Brando. Every movie that hes done in the past couple years, I just died for him. Hes extremely fascinating. -- Melissa Benoist
I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's. -- Anita Loos
I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a movie 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. -- Angela Bassett
When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. -- Eddie Marsan
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. -- Lee Marvin
Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine. -- Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. -- Roger Ebert
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. -- James Caan
One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone. -- Peter Bart
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. -- Larry Bishop
I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. -- Johnny Depp
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline. -- Leonard Cohen
When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean. -- William Forsythe
I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. -- Elvis Presley
There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time. -- Johnny Depp
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. -- Michael Caine
Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family. -- Johnny Depp
Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met. -- Marilyn Monroe
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. -- Elia Kazan
I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then. -- Matt Bomer
[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait. -- Roger Ebert
I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. -- Robert De Niro
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors. -- Al Pacino
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. -- Ansel Elgort
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out. -- Eric Andre
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. -- Emile Hirsch
I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work. -- Cole Hauser
A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando! -- Rebecca Hall
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God. -- Sam Rockwell
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. -- Peter Fonda
Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea. -- Ian Holm
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! -- Tom Hardy
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando. -- Martin Henderson
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up. -- Michael Shannon
Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating. -- Melissa Benoist
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. -- Richard Donner
I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time. -- Johnny Depp
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. -- Tippi Hedren
I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had. -- Anthony Hopkins
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. -- Dylan McDermott
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. -- Ryan Gosling
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. -- Orlando Jones
I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time. -- Arjun Rampal
I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something. -- Michael Jackson
I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed -- Humphrey Bogart
To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades. -- Ty Warner
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. -- Robert Hass
I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't. -- Hugh Laurie
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. -- Angela Bassett
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans. -- Kenneth Anger
I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible. -- Brett Ratner
You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando. -- Woody Allen
For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it. -- Werner Herzog
Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was [Frank] Sinatra's, oddly enough. -- Robert Davi
I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it. -- Jack Nicholson
I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody. -- Dennis Hopper
When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there. -- Eric Braeden
Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius. -- Martin Sheen
I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. -- Kris Kristofferson
I used to go over to Gene Kelly's house and play volleyball, and Paul Newman and Marlon Brando were always there. You kind of took it for granted because I was 20, 21, 22, and they were a bit older - well, Gene certainly was. But it was just part of daily living. They were in the same profession, and you didn't think that much about it. -- Joan Collins
You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this. -- Garret Dillahunt

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