“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”Marlon Brando
“An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.”Marlon Brando The Observer (1956)
“Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with… Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.”Marlon Brando Rolling Stone Issue No. 213 (May 20, 1976) on Elia Kazan
“The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.”Marlon Brando New York Times (July 2, 2004)
“A lot of the old movie stars couldn't act their way out of a box of wet tissue paper, but they were successful because they had distinctive personalities. They were predictable brands of breakfast cereal: on Wednesdays we had Quaker Oats and Gary Cooper; on Fridays we had Wheaties and Clark Gable. They were off-the-shelf products you expected always to be the same, actors and actresses with likable personalities who played themselves more or less the same role the same way every time out.”Marlon Brando