Marlon Brando

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

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

Our family always had animals, but they became more important to me as the years passed because they helped me deal with the absence of love.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.