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"I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one
beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that
aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life,
for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent...But now, in my
seventieth year, 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."
Source : Brando's
Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
"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"
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando on "The Wild One"
"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."
Source : Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995
Elia Kazan on Marlon Brando's performance in "On the Waterfront"
"If
there is a better performance by a man in the history of film in America, I
don't know what it is."
Source : Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills
1946-1995
In Brando's eyes, Desirée was a "superficial and dismal" movie. "I was
astonished when told it had been a success."
Source : Marlon Brando,
Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995
Marlon Brando on "Burn!"
"I think I did the best acting I've ever done in
that picture, but few people came to see it."
Source : Brando's
Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
"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."
Source : Brando's
Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando on "The Wild One"
"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."
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Marlon Brando on Charlie Chaplin
"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. You
don't know that he's senile."
Source : Rolling Stone, May 20 1976, Issue No.
213
"On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture (On the Waterfront) I was
so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room"
Source : Brando's Autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me
At a press conference ("The Young Lions") in Berlin, Brando said, "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."
Source : Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills
1946-1995
"(Elia) 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. Gadge (Kazan) knows when things are in and out. Has a good feeling. He
works viscerally and on instinct. Kazan would say, 'Go out and rehearse this
scene and bring me something back.' He'll take about eight points out of 12 or
11, and there's no ego involved. He's guy that works without ego."
Source :
Rolling Stone, May 20 1976, Issue No. 213
Marlon Brando On Bernardo Bertolucci
"Bertolucci is extraordinary in his
ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for."
Source :
Rolling Stone, May 20 1976, Issue No. 213
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