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. Marlon Brando More Quotes by Marlon Brando More Quotes From Marlon Brando Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken. Marlon Brando walks way Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now. Marlon Brando regret life past Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity. Marlon Brando momentum surrender mediocrity Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age. Marlon Brando morning night thinking People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism. Marlon Brando hate real thinking Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. Marlon Brando size talent confusion All I want to be is normally insane. Marlon Brando sanity insane want The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much. Marlon Brando scabs sensitive love If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. Marlon Brando executioners keepers brother Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger. Marlon Brando get-up stronger inspirational An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer. Marlon Brando motivational inspirational order When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense. Marlon Brando stars beach lying The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda. Marlon Brando agendas hollywood use Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are. Marlon Brando theatre who-you-are character I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. Marlon Brando damage stories way Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you. Marlon Brando hey doe philosophy Tell me, do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Marlon Brando real-men real men Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando hollywood successful people We only have so many faces in our pockets Marlon Brando pockets faces motivational 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. Marlon Brando two people thinking