The following are quotes attributed to Marlon Brando:
On acting:
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.”
"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."
"Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?"
"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."
"All I want to be is normally insane."
"The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much."
"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse — it's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
On grotesque:
"The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid."
On materialism:
“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
On aging:
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.”
On actors:
“An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.”
On obesity:
“I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.”
On being a celebrity:
“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.”
"I don't want to spread the peanut butter of my personality on the moldy bread of the commercial press."
On talent:
“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
Quotations compiled by Fox News' C. Spencer Beggs