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I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. -- Bette Davis
I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda. -- Eli Wallach
I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good. -- Lee Marvin
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show. -- Elia Kazan
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. -- Larry Bishop
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront. -- George A. Romero
When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean. -- William Forsythe
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. -- Michael Caine
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started. -- Mark Ruffalo
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 can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes -- Corey Taylor
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. -- Roger Ebert
Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine. -- Marilyn Monroe
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. -- Gene Kelly
I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. -- Johnny Depp
Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit. -- Clifton Davis
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline. -- Leonard Cohen
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 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
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
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
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'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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time. -- Johnny Depp
Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family. -- Johnny Depp
[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
[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'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

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