Brando Quotes

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

Husband, Next, Along

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
Bette Davis

Generation, Marlon

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

Around, Though, Finest

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

Thought, Tough, Guys

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

Work, Everything, Done

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

Said, Show, Becoming

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

Enough, Away, Walk

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

Real, Said, Become

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

Happen, Fact, House

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
Benicio Del Toro

Jack, Mumble, Nicholson

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

Great, Mean, Actress

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

Blood, Seen, Realistic

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

Done, Anyone, Generation

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

Funny, Great, Big

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

Wonderful, Worked, Fonda

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

Time, Good, Movies

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

Acting, Growing, Accident

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

Family, Mother, Father

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.
Thomas Haden Church

Famous, Real, Reason

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

Work, God, Hard

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

Comparing, Noon, Compared

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

Good, Bad, Thought

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

Problems, Anyone

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

Life, God, Saying

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

Two, Lifetime, Heroes

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

Fun, Together, Working

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

Rock, Father, Help

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

Love, Good, Bad

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

School, High, Supposed

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

Moment, Continued, Method

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