Marlon Brando credited as playing...
Self
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Everything that you do - make it real as you can. Make it alive. Make it tangible. Find the truth of that moment.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Lying for a living. That's what acting is. All I've done is just learned how to be aware of the process.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: And the reason they don't have light in the theater is because you are there with your fantasy. The person up on the screen is doing all the things that you want to do. They're kissing a woman you want to kiss. Hitting the people you want to hit. Being brave in a way you want to be brave.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Acting is just making stuff up. But, that's okay. Life is a rehearsal. Life is an improvisation.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: A good con man can fool anybody. And the first person that you fool, as a con man, is yourself.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: With the wind blowing the light. The shadow of leaves. It is like a wonderful, soft dream. And that soft wind calling. That's a wind that you can trust. You are the memories.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: We develop the technique of acting, very, very early. Even from the time we're a kid, where we're throwing our oatmeal on the floor, just to get attention from our mothers. Acting is survival.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: The astounding thing, that most people don't realize, all motion pictures today, all acting today, stems from Stella Adler.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: Now let your mind drift. Back. Way back in time. To a time when you were very young. When you used to wake up in the morning. Put on your clothes, while everyone was sleeping. Walk down the sidewalk in - Omaha - and sit underneath that big elm tree.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: I was always interested to guess the things that people did not know about themselves.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: We'd be able to have money. I never had any money. My father was a traveling salesman. I was making more in six months of work than he made in ten years. He measured everything by money. He couldn't understand how this ne'er-do-well son of his could possibly do that.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: There's something absurd about it. That people go with hard earned cash into a darkened room, where they sit and they look at a crystaline screen, upon which images move around and speak.
- Marlon Brando, Himself: There are times, I know I did much better acting than in that scene "On The Waterfront." It had nothing to do with me. The audience does the work. They are doing the acting. Everybody feels like they're a failure. Everybody feels they could have been a contender.
