Marlon Brando

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

If there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

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

If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.

We couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act. Acting is a survival mechanism, and it's a social lubricant. And we act to save our lives, actually, every day. People lie constantly every day by not saying something that they think, or saying something that they don't think, or showing something that they don't feel.

Tim is the greatest actor ever. He pretends he loves me when he wants something to eat.

I'm going to be a plumber. I don't want to be an actor. I don't want to be a movie star. I don't want to be anything. I just want to be myself.

If I'm not a god, I'm a goddamn good actor.

I don't mind being an icon, but I'd rather be a person.

I don't think I'm a particularly good actor, I'm a character actor.

My father was a very, very funny man. He was also a very cruel man.

I never wanted to be a movie star. I wanted to be a good actor.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I just do it.

I've always been accused of being a rebel. But I'm not. I'm just an individual.

Most of the world is like a mental institution, a big insane asylum.

If you're going to be a movie star, you'd better be a good one.

I just wanted to get out of Nebraska.

Privacy is not something that I'm afforded.