“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.” IfsThinkingCountryGivenConditionsBrotherIndianAwardsAlteredKeepersInappropriateAmerican IndianExecutioners Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” IfsWayHas BeensStoriesLife IsSpeciesObligationDamageStory Of My LifeSearching For Love Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” IfsJobsWishActingSuccessfulDiseaseSkinsUnsuccessful Author:Marlon Brando
“If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.” IfsAmericaTasteMajorityEntertainmentTrashIndicationExpenditures Author:Marlon Brando
“I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.” IfsThinkingWantReasonCareActionFormToo MuchHappenedKingsRaisesDon't CareDustRhetoricLutherShufflingRobert F Kennedy Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantTryingMindDoeRealReasonHateFoundLosesEnemyWonderfulLike YouMetsReasonableHate YouExtremismLove HateAnathema Author:Marlon Brando
“We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.” PeopleIfsIndividualOpinionOur LivesOffersDevilExcuseMythProofPreservesDislikeReverseDecency Author:Marlon Brando
“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.” IfsBrotherKeepersExecutioners Author:Marlon Brando
“If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.” IfsWantGivingFantasyAudienceBloodUltimateWant SomethingHustleGiving Blood Author:Marlon Brando
“If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” IfsLifeActorsTelevisionStomachPersonal LifeWatching Television Author:Marlon Brando
“An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.” IfsGuyActorsTalkingListening Author:Marlon Brando
“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.” PeopleIfsTwoRoomsAcceptanceHundredLike Me Author:Marlon Brando
“Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.” IfsMenMayNumbersLoversConvincedAshamedHomosexualAmusingLarge NumbersNicholson Author:Marlon Brando
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindTwoSometimesRoomsHundredLike MeSensitiveArmorInsensitive Author:Marlon Brando
