Marlon Brando cytaty

„Zdaję sobie sprawę, że wybaczyć sobie za sprawą umysłu niekoniecznie oznacza wybaczyć sobie z głębi serca.”

„Najlepsze role to te, które pozwalają widzom identyfikować się z oglądanymi bohaterami i sytuacjami, a potem w wyobraźni odgrywać je ze swoim udziałem.”

„Aktorstwo w ogóle powinno dążyć do autentyzmu. Jeśli aktor wie, co zaraz powie, widzowie od razu wyczuwają, że mówi nie swoim tekstem. Jeżeli zaś nie uczy się go na pamięć, nie tylko nie ma pojęcia, co powie, ale i jak to powie, jak się będzie przy tym zachowywał albo poruszał głową, bo tego nie przećwiczył.”

„Zawsze uważałem za nadużywanie wpajanie bezbronnemu, podatnemu na wpływy dziecku przekonań, które nawet jeśli są słuszne, będą dla niego torturą przez całe życie.”

„Nigdy nie miałem zamiaru, śmiałości ani ambicji zostać gwiazdorem filmowym. To się po prostu stało.”

„Śmieszą mnie ludzie, którzy nazywają film sztuką, a aktorów artystami. Rembrandt, Beethoven, Szekspir, Rodin – to byli artyści. Aktorzy są jedynie wyrobnikami w tym biznesie i pracują dla pieniędzy. Między innymi dlatego mówi się o kinie jako przemyśle filmowym.”

„Ten film próbuje przedstawić nazizm jako sprawę myśli, a nie geografii, a także pokazać to, że w każdym kraju znajdą się i naziści, i ludzi dobrej woli. Świat nie może ciągle spoglądać wstecz i pielęgnować nienawiść. W przeciwnym razie postępu nie będzie.”

„Gdy stajesz się sławny, wszystko wokół ciebie się zmienia, także ludzie.”

„W przemyśle filmowym jest takie brutalne, ale zabawne powiedzenie: „Jeśli ktoś w Hollywood chce ci powiedzieć pieprz się, mówi zaufaj mi.””

„Nigdy nie uważałem, że osiągnięcie celu jest ważniejsze niż włożony w nie wysiłek.”

„Jesteśmy tacy, jakich się nas wychowa.”

„Zawsze znajduję ukojenie, gdy wyobrażam sobie, jak siedzę nocą, podczas delikatnej bryzy, na mojej wyspie mórz południowych – z otwartymi ustami i odchyloną do tyłu głową patrzę na mrugające światełka, licząc, że na czarnym niebie pojawi się ten dziwny promień i wprawi mnie w zdumienie. Nie wyciągam wprawdzie przed siebie ręki, lecz cierpliwie czekam na następny cud.”

„Wyspiarze mórz południowych nie mówią zbyt dobrze po angielsku, ale zasób ich słów wystarczy do podziału filmów amerykańskich na dwa gatunki: pif-paf i cmok-cmok.”

„Siebie samego nie sposób zrozumieć.”

„To aktorstwo, nie prostytucja, jest najstarszym zawodem świata.”

„Dzieci nie potrafią dokonać właściwych ocen i wyborów, ale to właśnie na nie się oddziałuje, by zdobyć kontrolę nad umysłami przyszłych wiernych. Chodzi bowiem o władzę.”

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe.”

“Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.”

“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.”

“I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.”

“I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.”

“Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.”

“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

“Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.”

“Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.”

“Bob Hope will go to the opening of a phone booth in a gas station in Anaheim, providing they have a camera there and three people. He'll go to the opening of a market to receive an award. He'd get an award from Thom McCan for wearing their shoes. It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up. He's like a junkie – an applause junkie. What happens to those people when they can't get up and do their shtick, God only knows. Bob Hope, Christ, instead of growing old gracefully or doing something with his money, be helpful, all he does is he has an anniversary with the President looking on. It's sad. He gets on an airplane every two minutes always going someplace. It didn't bother him at all to work the Vietnam War. Oh, he took that in his stride. He did his World War II and Korean War act. "Our boys" and all that. He’s a pathetic guy.”

“On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.”

“This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis — and people of good will — in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.”

“An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.”

“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.”

“Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.”

“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.”

“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”

“The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.”

“You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.”

“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.”

“Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.”

“Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.”

“Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet…he is very easy to work for.”

“I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.”

“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”

“I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.”